What happened to the power?
It was just one of those morning where you are doomed to be in the South.
On two separate occasions thousands of people were without power for at least an hour. What can we blame it on? The weather of course. About 75-thousand Enmax customers lost their juice all thanks to some ice fog that led to separate and unrelated equipment failures at two south Calgary substations.
Of course the newsroom is absolutely flooded with calls right after the lights went out. I was just arriving back to the station when I got a call from my editor who wanted me to head down to the South. Fortunately for me (because I probably would have had to work overtime) I was already back and Glory Przekop simply jumped in the cruiser and took off.
Normally when you do stories you don’t always think of the obvious and then the obvious smacks you right in the face. While I was at the station Kevin Usselman and I were fielding the many calls into the station and helping the mid-day crew get all the info to pass on to you the listener. Then I get a call from my girlfriend. It’s like all of a sudden I forgot about the fact that I live in the south and that my girlfriend is working a late shift today and was home.
We chatted for a total of 30 seconds before I convinced her to tell me about the outage and how her day is being effected. Of course she couldn’t cook her food without an appliance, she had to light candles to see in some of the rooms in our house, she had to use her cell phone to call because our phones are cordless, and she couldn’t even listen to the radio to find out about the black out.
It’s amazing how useless we become when the power goes out. I guess the point of this entry is to simply say I love it when I get to chat with my girlfriend at work and not get in trouble for making personal calls.