The cows are roosting and it’s time for the chickens to come home

I’ve had just about enough of the constant power outages in our area. Last week, I counted six in three days of varying duration.

It’s so unbelievably disruptive to those of us working from home and dangerous to those of us who rely on medical devices like CPAP care, oxygen and dialysis.

I think we can all agree that the occasional loss of power during a storm or in the dog days of summer when demand is high, while annoying, is to be expected. However, the last year of unreliability, punctuated by the last week, calls for an explanation.

I’ve been prodding our semi-private provincial provider and hope to have some meaningful answers for you shortly. We deserve to know the cause of recent unreliability, and what immediate mitigations are being worked on while a proper solution is found.

I’d hazard to guess that development has outpaced infrastructure growth, as has