[8thcivic]

Heard theres a power outtage due to a crash on kingsway and victoria? might be wrong, but i did hear a loud bang and my lights flickered. Anybody else heard or saw the accident or know the actual cause?

[604778]

Main st no power.
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[Graeme S]

Coworker's boyfriend near nanaimo station, no power. Everything's fine over in Kits.
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[!Nhan]

No power in east van. From kingsway and boundry to 54 past clarendon is what I know. I wanted my fucking panago pizza. Fuck
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[8thcivic]

No power in east van. From kingsway and boundry to 54 past clarendon is what I know. I wanted my fucking panago pizza. Fuck
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lol panago from tyne st? if so thats where i use to work as a delivery driver =D

[Groot]

i saw this guy working on the street lamp on kingsway...then all of a sudden all the lights turned off LOL

[!Nhan]

lol panago from tyne st? if so thats where i use to work as a delivery driver =D

Lol yes that one. Haha I work at the call centre and they didn't let us know. Those jerks
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[8thcivic]

i saw this guy working on the street lamp on kingsway...then all of a sudden all the lights turned off LOL

LOL maybe that was the cause, but where did the loud bang come from?

[insomniac]

i live near vic and 41st and the block across from my house has no power at all.. my house flickered for 1 sec. FUUU had to start up computer again LOL

[LUUUUUUUU]

oh fck my whole neighbourghood got EMPed by the Terran

shit my ice cream are all melting away

[!Nhan]

Anyone have power now?
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[LUUUUUUUU]

still down 50 minutes now

[8thcivic]

i live near vic and 41st and the block across from my house has no power at all.. my house flickered for 1 sec. FUUU had to start up computer again LOL

LOL same with main street and 28th, mcdonalds side has no electricty but the restaurants across from there does

[8thcivic]

Anyone have power now?
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nope its still down.

[Groot]

sucks ass for the people eating in the restaurant LOLOL

[604778]

I just got back from states too :( my cousin was eating pho at Nanimo and kingsway. Blacked out. Had to go a different place.
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[LUUUUUUUU]

fuck an hour now

[!Nhan]

Apparently power will be up at 11 lol
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[8thcivic]

sucks ass for the people eating in the restaurant LOLOL

lol imo the worst time for a power outage is while showering

[!Nhan]

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/92018--a-power-outage-leaves-thousands-of-people-in-metro-vancouver-in-the-dark
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[8thcivic]

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/92018--a-power-outage-leaves-thousands-of-people-in-metro-vancouver-in-the-dark
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ah, 52 more mins to go =]

[604778]

lol imo the worst time for a power outage is while showering

Taking a shit. With no toilet paper.
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[8thcivic]

Taking a shit. With no toilet paper.
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LOL, in the dark, with no toliet paper and posting on revscene XD

[carisear]

FUCK YEAH i have power!!!

erm to clarify, i never lost power, but i live in the catchment from that news link

[604778]

Got power!
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[LUUUUUUUU]

thank god its not until 11pm

[Gh0stRider]

pne not affected...thx god

[urrh]

Got power!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_qfX9cKsQ&feature=search

[!Nhan]

Got power too lol
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[insomniac]

sucks ass for the people eating in the restaurant LOLOL

not really.. usually they get a free meal. and the employee's can leave early. i know this cause my dad owns multiple restaurants.

[TOS'd]

oh my god, longest 1 hr 10 mins of my life.

[HondaGuy]

Just got power back 10mins ago...
Certain areas of sw marine drive, fraser, main and cambie was out. I was driving through that area.
Some ppl dont know how to use 4way stops...

Good thing I had my LED flashlights when I was home.
Hope everyones ok.

When the power was out ... i thought to myself someone on RS
might be thinking of the FUUUUUUUUUUUU icon. Hahhahaha
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[-EuroRSN-]

Wow fucking skytrains!!! What ever the power is back on now so all good! This outage almost caused me to drink and drive grrrr!
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[AccordCouped]

the power level probably went over 9000 and caused the generators to fail

[Amuse]

Was driving on 57th and Knight and along 49th at 9pm. All power was out. Gas stations no light. light poles and traffic lights were out. Houses were all dark. Basically driving in the dark with people and their high beams on while the pedestrians were hard to see. Good thing I wasn't driving behind people with Honda's that don't turn on their head/tail-lights.

[tofu1413]

weird. i live at 41st and vic.. and i had power the whole time..

[CorneringArtist]

The power outage killed the SkyTran service between Joyce and Nanaimo, forced a 20 minute wait on trains going to Surrey, and people had to go to the Millenium Line to get to DT.

Metrotown Station was a sardine can at like 10PM lol.

[ikki]

Power restored for 62,000 customers in Vancouver

Ten neighbourhoods and the SkyTrain Expo Line suffered partial outages after a problem at a substation Saturday night.

BY RHIANNON COPPIN, VANCOUVER SUN AUGUST 21, 2010 11:02 PM COMMENTS (4)


STORYPHOTOS ( 1 )



BC Hydro is reporting that a substation fault at 9:19 p.m. this evening resulted in a blackout for 62,106 customers. The affected homes and businesses are in Vancouver's southeast, stretching from approximately Cambie to Boundary and from approximately 12th Avenue to Southeast Marine Drive.
Photograph by: Screengrab, BC Hydro website
A substation fault that began at around 9:00 p.m. this evening resulted in a blackout for 62,106 customers in areas of Vancouver, Burnaby, and Richmond.

The bulk of affected homes and businesses were in Vancouver's southeast, stretching from approximately Cambie to Boundary and from approximately 12th Avenue to Kent Avenue, below Southeast Marine Drive.

Translink also suffered an outage, due to the loss of power to the SkyTrain Expo and Millenium lines between Commercial-Broadway and Metrotown stations, resulting in a loss of service to the Nanaimo, 29th Avenue, Joyce-Collingwood and Patterson SkyTrain stations.

"Generators will be set up soon to help get SkyTrain running again, but we don't have an estimate on when they'll be running," Translink's spokesperson Drew Snider emailed in a press statement at 10:17 p.m.

In the meantime, a "bus bridge" was established to move riders between Commercial-Broadway and Metrotown stations. The Millenium Line between Commercial and Columbia via Production Way was not affected and offered an alternate roundabout route to access most stations.

Special event PNE buses were terminating at Renfrew Station instead of 29th Avenue, which was closed during the outage.

BC Hydro has estimated on its web site that power would be restored by 11:00 p.m. Partial restorations at 10:10 p.m. and 10:20 p.m. left 45,096 and 29,175, respectively, in the dark. By 10:35 p.m. all the lights and appliances -- and presumably the SkyTrain stations -- were back online.

CKNW news reported that there was a small explosion at the affected substation, but a BC Hydro spokesperson could not confirm that fact nor disclose the location of the substation as of 10:40 p.m. Saturday night

© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/regional-news/Power+restored+customers+Vancouver/3428447/story.html#ixzz0xJhmYLyG

[TRD Rs200]

the gf didnt have power for like 1:30 hours, 33nd and victoria

[Culverin]

church @ 59th and knight lost power, we called it quits and went to bbt.
Corner 23 @ Cambie and 23rd also had no power.

Freaking idiots can't drive.
People on the main roads aren't stopping at the blacked out signals, and just rushing through. Others don't know how to do a proper 4-way stop.

Riding around on my scooter is scary as heck.
There's no streetlights, and riding on 33rd past the cemetery just gave me chills.

I thought to myself, zombie apocalypse, that's what it felt like.

[Groot]

not really.. usually they get a free meal. and the employee's can leave early. i know this cause my dad owns multiple restaurants.

lulz even at chinese restaurants?:rofl:

[Delerious]

Lost power at my place, 19th and st. catherine's. playing axis and allies by candle light isn't very easy.

[jackmeister]

lol. my windows were open when i was playing a TVB show

the computer flickered.. then 3 seconds later i hear someone yell "fuckkkkkkkkk" very loud in the neighbourhood.

someone must've got dropped on SC2

[tonyvu]

was at a family friends house around 34th and victoria, dad was singing kareoke and bam all of a sudden powers done... i went outside to check it out and a firetruck + 3 cruisers were blocking victoria and 33rd to cars heading towers marine.... the accident looked pretty bad.

[TOS'd]

My tv was on during the power outage, and so it all turned off. But after the power went back on, all shaw channels are showing up as nothing, but displaying a msg that says something like please wait or the channel will be back in one moment. This is happening to every single channel. Anyone know how to reset or let is rescan all channels?

[hchang]

Wow fucking skytrains!!! What ever the power is back on now so all good! This outage almost caused me to drink and drive grrrr!
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1. Drive
2. Ding your car
3. ????
4. Profit?

[Alatar]

I heard the *bang* about 1/2 a second after the initial flicker of my lights. That was at 9:00pm on the dot. My area (41st & Knight) had no power outage. Across the street had power outage. Noted a lot of areas around also had no power, all the way to Boundary.

[FerrariEnzo]

there was no power when i drove down marine dr from about knight st last night.. when i hit fraser, there was power...

[TOS'd]

My tv was on during the power outage, and so it all turned off. But after the power went back on, all shaw channels are showing up as nothing, but displaying a msg that says something like please wait or the channel will be back in one moment. This is happening to every single channel. Anyone know how to reset or let is rescan all channels?

GG, called shaw CSR and they couldnt fix it over the phone or on their end. The guy said he couldn't get a tech out to my area (Killarney) for 10 DAYS.

That is some complete BS. Going to have to call back again, no way I'm waiting 9 days without compensation at least.

[TheStreetDream]

nothing happened to me :D

[Alatar]

My tv was on during the power outage, and so it all turned off. But after the power went back on, all shaw channels are showing up as nothing, but displaying a msg that says something like please wait or the channel will be back in one moment. This is happening to every single channel. Anyone know how to reset or let is rescan all channels?

Normal. It happens when you do a reset on the shaw HD PVR boxes, I find. Wait about 15-20 minutes and it usually restores itself back to normal.

[TOS'd]

^ So how do I reset it properly? Weird how the CSR didn't tell me to reset anything on my end, but he tried resetting on his end.

[Alatar]

Unplug it, wait a moment, plug it back in. Turn it back on, see if the listing propagates after a while. Might take even half an hour or longer. I've gone through this with Shaw before too and they never seem to be able to explain it.

[TOS'd]

Unplug the power and cable? Don't need to touch the output cables right?

[Alatar]

Correct.

[TypeRNammer]

FUUUU I think it happened again.

Collingwood area.
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[604778]

I got no power too. Main and 39th area.
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[SumAznGuy]

Power outage was from 12th ave to Marine Dr. From Cambie to Boundry rd.
I know along Kingsway from Victoria down had power. Some side streets had power too.
King Edward had power.
Parts of Main st. had power.

But what really annoyed me was all the people who either drove only their DRL's on, or high beams.
2 or 3 cars in each lane going through the intersection instead of one at a time like the proper way to do a 4 way stop.
But the thing that bugged me the most was all the pedistrians who decide to dart across the street. For fcuk sakes. They are wearing dark clothing, and decide to jay walk across Kingsway when they are a block away from functioning traffic lights on Victoria.

Some of the smarter people lit up their cellphones so cars can see them.

[Sentinel]

No power here. 45th and victoria.
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[8thcivic]

yup happened again. drove up main st and king edward, ppl dont know how to do 4 way stops. They just randomly cross and they're just asking for an accident.

[InvisibleSoul]

LoL... that sucks.

lol. my windows were open when i was playing a TVB show

the computer flickered.. then 3 seconds later i hear someone yell "fuckkkkkkkkk" very loud in the neighbourhood.

someone must've got dropped on SC2

That's pretty funny. :D

[hotjoint]

was at my friend house on 57th and Kerr on saturday night and everything was out around the block

[ForbiddenX]

Anyone know what time the power's going to be back on?
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[604778]

Powers back!
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[LsquareD]

Power is back for me. Wooo
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[Euro7r]

Another substation failure. Ridiculous.

[604778]

Power has been restored to thousands of customers in Vancouver after a massive outage snarled traffic and slowed trolley buses on Monday morning.

Officials with BC Hydro said about 26,000 customers south of Broadway between Cambie Street and Boundary Road lost power around 10:10 a.m. PT because of a problem at a substation.

Officials rerouted the power and restored service to most of the customers by 11:30 a.m., according to BC Hydro officials.

About 60,000 Vancouver-area customers also lost power on Saturday night because of a problem at the same substation, but officials are still investigating if the problems are connected.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/08/23/bc-vancouver-power-outage.html#ixzz0xSaP7txM

[tonyvu]

lol lost power again this morning

[TypeRNammer]

FUUUU not again, collingwood area.
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[604778]

Same with me!! Main and 39th.
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[c3m]

wtf is wrong with bchydro

[bcrdukes]

Just went out here in Renfrew Heights.

[!Nhan]

Same with collingwood/south east van
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[moomooCow]

Same here, Killarney Area.

........... this is really annoying

[604778]

Powers back..
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[Alatar]

41st & Victoria, haven't had a single outage yet. :D

[tonyvu]

just lost power again.... around kilarney area... fuck sakes my laptops gonna die -.-

[Vansterdam]

lol heard power was out around oakridge today around 11am? and right now around south van

[Timewav3zer0]

yeah oakridge had no power...marine and fraiser area is ok for now *crosses fingers*

[Delerious]

went out twice today again at 19th and st. catherines. what the shit are they doing!?

[Amuse]

41st & Victoria, haven't had a single outage yet. :D
But the traffic lights have been 4 way stop the whole day.

[InvisibleSoul]

41st & Victoria, haven't had a single outage yet. :D

Odd... my friend lives literally a few lots from the NE corner of 41st and Victoria, and he lost power twice yesterday.

[604778]

Apparently from 41st going south, had power.

[Alatar]

Odd... my friend lives literally a few lots from the NE corner of 41st and Victoria, and he lost power twice yesterday.

I'm closer to halfway between Knight & Victoria, just off 41st Ave. From the houses on 41st to about 43rd, and about a block in either direction, there was no loss of power during ANY of the 3 outages. It seems to be a little island in the middle of the rest of the grid. :D