Castanet

Anybody else out there with their power out?

A downed tree north of Penticton along hwy 97. Power out to Sland, Pen and Kaledan. Crews are working on restoring.

Castanet, you've been told this and should've posted something. Terrible reporting.

It was on their twitter feed.

It was on their feed 6 mins ago. It was reported to them at 11:30.

verifying the information before posting it?

Yeah right, considering the majority of their story is from Twitter, the least they could have done was post a red story line at the top like they initially did!

power was out?

From what I understand the downed tree has affected the power supply to Summerland, it was still out there when I left half an hour ago. Power was out locally for about fifteen minutes, don't know how widespread that was of if it was connected to the tree incident. We discussed this once before, Penticton gets it power from two sources, the line that comes in from the west over the reserve to the substation behind Home Hardware, and a line that comes up from the south to a substation up Carmi. Pretty rare that the whole city goes out.

Yup still out in Summerland. I do find it weird the light by Timmy's was still working but not much else earlier!

Fortis says it should be back "shortly after 3pm".

Fortis just advised ETA for power restoration in Summerland is 8:00 pm

WHAT??! Where did they say this?!!

uh oh...somebody might have to find something to do...

Do your new employers pay you to play around on the Internet all day too?!

Power is expected to be restored to Summerland in stages, starting at 6 pm.

...and the [New Improved Power Grid Installations] just recently