We lived in rural saanich on a dead end street. Frequent outages because BCH refused to trim the branches threatening the primary line for the district. When only our street went down, with about 20 houses, they gave us an ETA of a day or so based on current outages and crew. But then the storm continued and many more major outages occurred. Understandably, they prioritized fixing a wire that serves hundreds, to fixing our wire. But as more large outages occurred days later, the ETA kept getting pushed back until we were out for a whole week. (No heat in freezing weather, no well pump, no septic discharge pump, etc.) In our opinion, OK, move us down below the big outages, but at several days in, if I was part of a new large outage, I would happily wait a few extra hours so those in small outages that have been down for a week get restored first.
I know there’s cost to consider, but wouldn’t it be worth it to run power lines below ground? Nearly all outages are the result of above ground lines damaged by storms and falling trees.
Like in Broadmead? They get storm outages because the underground system is fed by a long overhead rural primary line down Blenkinsop from the substation.
it costs a lot more (I've heard up to 10x) to do that installation. Don't forget a lot of BC is also in earthquake zones. Underground wires will not perform well there at all. If everything is underground, I would also guess that maintenance and changes to the system will be very costly as well.
I remember one November in 2017 or 2018 it rained for 29 days out of 30…i decided that was it and in 2019 I moved East..colder but waaay dryer and better, for ME
Why not keep trees far enough away from power lines as much as possible. This would certainly help prevent a lot of damage to power lines and houses. Just a thought.
We lived near prospect lake, and tried to get BCH to take down long-DEAD large trees a metre from their power line. No action, then within a couple of years, we got power outages caused by those trees.
And those protesters are immigrants who want more for free from our government… they say they own Canada now… our government is paying them the equivalent of an income of $115000 before taxes. Think about that. How many of us make that much? And we have to work for it and pay taxes … but they get it for free and are complaining. What about our own poor, homeless or our veterans?????? Trudeau has his head up his ass!
We lived in rural saanich on a dead end street. Frequent outages because BCH refused to trim the branches threatening the primary line for the district. When only our street went down, with about 20 houses, they gave us an ETA of a day or so based on current outages and crew. But then the storm continued and many more major outages occurred. Understandably, they prioritized fixing a wire that serves hundreds, to fixing our wire. But as more large outages occurred days later, the ETA kept getting pushed back until we were out for a whole week. (No heat in freezing weather, no well pump, no septic discharge pump, etc.) In our opinion, OK, move us down below the big outages, but at several days in, if I was part of a new large outage, I would happily wait a few extra hours so those in small outages that have been down for a week get restored first.
loved living in sooke , its worth all the inconveniances
It's ok, like all the comments on the "bomb cyclone" says, it's just normal November weather.
I know there’s cost to consider, but wouldn’t it be worth it to run power lines below ground? Nearly all outages are the result of above ground lines damaged by storms and falling trees.
Like in Broadmead? They get storm outages because the underground system is fed by a long overhead rural primary line down Blenkinsop from the substation.
it costs a lot more (I've heard up to 10x) to do that installation. Don't forget a lot of BC is also in earthquake zones. Underground wires will not perform well there at all. If everything is underground, I would also guess that maintenance and changes to the system will be very costly as well.
I remember one November in 2017 or 2018 it rained for 29 days out of 30…i decided that was it and in 2019 I moved East..colder but waaay dryer and better, for ME
Went out in Agassiz for about 7 hours and just got back on now.
Why not keep trees far enough away from power lines as much as possible. This would certainly help prevent a lot of damage to power lines and houses. Just a thought.
They used to this.I worked for a tree service that regularly worked for BC HYDRO doing exactly that.
We lived near prospect lake, and tried to get BCH to take down long-DEAD large trees a metre from their power line. No action, then within a couple of years, we got power outages caused by those trees.
We live in a thick dense forest with 30m+ tall trees. You recommending clearcutting the neighbourhood?
@ just far enough so that if a large tree falls it won’t hit a power line or house.
@@sustainablelivingnl773 And that would be clearcutting the neighbourhood. Trees are everywhere. It is a forest.
These town names are hilarious 😂
Timberdoodle? Really?
Dumb American I bet 😅😅😅. Shocked you even know where Canada is 😅😅
Protesters are burning cars while or prime minister is dancing to Taylor swift- but there’s a power outage in east Sooke
And those protesters are immigrants who want more for free from our government… they say they own Canada now… our government is paying them the equivalent of an income of $115000 before taxes. Think about that. How many of us make that much? And we have to work for it and pay taxes … but they get it for free and are complaining. What about our own poor, homeless or our veterans?????? Trudeau has his head up his ass!
Kids are starving somewhere in the world and you’re eating breakfast. What’s your point?