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2 dead in B.C. in aftermath of windstorm

B.C. Hydro estimates about 10,000 customers are still without power from that storm, mostly on Vancouver’s North Shore and in the Victoria area. At the height of the storm, 250,000 were without electricity.

There’s nobody I know that didn’t either experience the power outages, or know someone else who did. I got extremely lucky and didn’t lose it once, although the lights were flickering once in a while for a day or two. I can’t believe this led people to die, but as the article states, they were using a gas powered heater and got exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning. I suppose these things happen when you bring the heater inside the house and shut all the doors and windows.

I have only two questions:

• What needs to be done to our power infrastructure to prevent this from happening again? I mean, power outages are an inevitability. Wind happens, tree falls happen, and thus power outages happen. However, so many trees being knocked down that it takes out a quarter of a million people’s power? Something needs to change.
• What’s this going to do to pot prices, with all those grow-ops stuck without their lights on? A lot of them are probably either ready to harvest or finished anyway.

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