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  • (Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:15PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:15PM (#21802)

    The east coast has been really getting it in the neck, huh? Some of my acquaintances in Nova Scotia have taken to calling Wednesday "Blizzard Day" because there's been a bad-to-crippling storm in the middle of almost every single week.

  • (Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:09PM

    by dx3bydt3 (82) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:09PM (#21852)

    This Wednesday wasn't as bad as forecast. At least in Cape Breton. We got only ~30cm, and somehow, despite the 100km/hr wind, snow and freezing rain the power didn't go out.

    • (Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday March 27 2014, @12:46AM

      by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Thursday March 27 2014, @12:46AM (#21925)

      Well, thank heaven for small favors. Though from what I heard the storm's direction meant it was the mainland that got it in the neck. Halifax shut down, the Cobequid Pass closed.... Oy. When I was down there the weather was never that bad. Had some ugly storms to be sure, but never anything like this.

      • (Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:53AM

        by dx3bydt3 (82) on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:53AM (#21978)
        Apparently I was lucky, 12,000 other people did loose power. Also some weathermen nearly blew away on camera! [youtube.com]

        • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 29 2014, @06:55PM

          by evilviper (1760) on Saturday March 29 2014, @06:55PM (#22961) Journal

          12,000 other people did loose power.

          How long did it take them to tighten it?

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          • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 31 2014, @11:56AM

            by VLM (445) on Monday March 31 2014, @11:56AM (#23624)

            The electricity gets loose from the cables when they fall off the poles and touch the ground. Just put the cables back on the poles, assuming the poles are still standing there and haven't been invaded by the Russians after they blitzkrieg the Ukraine.