The Reason We Were Offline

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Windstorm Saturday night took this Jackpine and hung it up in the power lines. This caused a short circuit which blew the breaker on the end of our road. No electricity, no phone, and no Internet until someone could come and fix it. They couldn't come for four days because this storm did a lot more damage than this little tree. Apparently, 97000 homes and businesses were without power because of 1020 broken, damaged or shorted out power lines across the province. Because we are the only people connected to this particular power line, we're pretty low on the priority list. That's also why we are fairly well prepared for this type of emergency. When help finally arrived, it came in the form of two retired Hydro Quebec workers who were called in to help from that neighbouring province. Francine was tickled to be able to go chat with them while they made repairs (she was also making sure that we were not accidentally overlooked). I could have removed the tree myself (I've handled far more dangerous hangers than that one). They don't really want people like me messing about with their equipment. The line itself was fine once they got the tree removed. We're fine as well. Hopefully, we won't have to deal with this sort of things anytime soon again.