"Where were you when the lights went out?"

[jroy017]

I was at work running some experineces in a lab and the it went poof and I lost all my work :banging:

BU thats not what was most frustrating, Tuesday I went to bring my tanks to my LDS (in Ottawa) to fill up and it was too hot so the LDS said leave them overnight and come and get them later this week. I was working Wednes night so I didn't go, Thursday night was hell getting home so I didn<t get a chjance to go and Friday when I show up at the LDS at lunch and again at two there was a sign saying closed to conserve power. Now thats a very thoughtfull thing but......

I'm working as a DM SAturday and Sunday and I wanted my tanks :upset:. Furthernmore I thought I wouldn get to dive this weekend.....

However at 5 I got a phone call from the LDS where I had left a message, they wanted to know when I wouold like to come get my tanks( right away)

So all in all I had a very nice week-end Dove the Daryaw, the Lillie and the Musky on Saturday

And redove them on Sunday, what a week-end....

Thanks to PY for the incredible trip

 

[squidguy]

I was in a patient's room in ICU when it went black! By the time the emergency generator kicked in, I was manually bagging the ventilated patient and so were staff in other rooms! The only vents that didn't go down were Puritan Bennett 840's that have battery backups (they rule!).
The HVAC goes down on backup power so it was pretty toasty when I left the hospital. Lighting was at a minimum. The stairwells were full of staff and visitors as most of the elevators were down. IT was scrambling to get computers in emergency plugs and rebooted. Emergency department flashlights... oh yeah... where did we put those!?!? It was a fun experience! Really makes you think.

Friday was crazy, I went to Costco for a few cases of water... people were buying 4-10 cases of water! Batteries, flashlights were flying of the shelves.

Lineups for gas were close to a city block long everywhere on the Friday. I finally got off the road and on to the gas station property when the attendant started walking down the line saying... the power was down again and the pumps aren't running!!! Many cars left at that point and I actually moved up to a pump. I sat around for 2 hours before the pumps were up again. However if I didn't get the gas, I wouldn't have gone to Toby for the weekend. BTW Toby gas great, not too busy... think people were spooked!

 

[ScubaScott]

nuf said...

SS

 

[cobaltbabe]

What would you be doing there? Riding the goose? LOL

 

[John McClane]

I was down in St.Fabien Quebec (up road from Rimouski) on my Empress diving trip. Didn't loose any stuff in the freezer because we moved over to Quebec side of the river where they have seperate power - was only out for a few minutes I hear.
Sorry no sad story here.

 

[LilJoRt6]

I left my home just about 1 minute before the power failure. On my way to meet my dive buudy I noticed all the traffic lights were out. We drift dove the Niagar River---by the time I got home it was back on. SOOOOOOOO----next time this happens--grab your gear and go for a dive! Don't need electricity down under!

 

[sirius4procyon]

in :boom: Afghanistan:boom: ! So it was definately not my fault... Can't find any dive shops here...

Siriusly