Uh Oh

Power outage this morning.

Not a long one, but an apparently hugely widespread one.  D'oh.

I knew it was an outage because things beeped.  The "no power" indicator beep.  My new phone... thing.  And my fire alarm (wired into the building).

And then I texted both Jason and C-Dawg because I'm on a grid that rarely goes down and so it was exciting!

But they both texted back (in different parts of town and one of them on the "hospital grid") that they had no power too.  Texted my parents.  Same.

Uh oh.

Because power goes out where you are and it's like oops a bird or a car accident or something.  Power goes out "all over"?  Yeah, that's something big and potentially bad.

I'd already had my tea so there really wasn't much to be concerned about (as in I didn't need power particularly).  I have battery packs for my phone if I needed.

But the power came back on in less than ten minutes.  Hmmm... ok.

Back on for C-Dawg and my parents and Jason too.  Hmmm...

About twenty minutes after my power came back (backup power?  issue fixed?) I looked at the BC Hydro (power provider) site and their outage map was massive.  Not the whole Island, but pretty much all of the chunk where we live.  Hmmm...

And now the "rumours" start.  Issue with an underwater cable.  Someone pressed the wrong button.  Substation issue.  Etc etc.

I can wonder and guess all I want, I just know something went not so good, but losing power for only a few minutes on a Saturday morning isn't a huge deal.  I hope we get to find out what happened and I hope they review the whatevers.  (The heat dome may have damaged some of our under water cables, me no know.)

So yeah, we had a really odd and possibly not good power outage but seems most of us didn't lose power for long.

But hey, my anxiety has taken this as an opportunity to freak me the heck out so YAY, that's super UN FUN!