City-wide power failure brings gridlock
[2008-7-17]
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A fire Monday morning knocked out power to skyscrapers andbuildings throughout Vancouver's downtown core, causing trafficnightmares in the city and Internet woes all over North America.Power was cut to more than 2,200 Hydro customers, many of themmajor employers in the city.
"Unfortunately, we are looking at a fairly extensive repair job,"Danard said Monday night. "It could be a couple of days beforewe've completed all the splicing of all the new cable." Smoke and heat from the fire made it difficult for power crews toaccess the manhole where the blaze began. Vancouver police Cst. Tim Fanning asked drivers on Tuesday to avoiddowntown as long as the power remained off. But he said police were preparing to continue guiding traffic ifpower doesn't return Tuesday, using traffic officers and portablestop signs.
He also said the force was braced for potential overnight threatsto "people and property" in the darkened city.
"We have extra officers assigned to the affected area in caseanyone gets the wrong idea," Fanning said Monday evening. Adding to the power outage woes, Internet services for manycompanies was blacked out when one of seven backup generators atHarbour Centre, a major telecommunications and Internet hub inVancouver, conked out. Douglas Hume, vice-president and general manager of the HarbourCentre complex, said two major tenants were affected.
"Unfortunately, we're a big network of customers and clients," Humesaid. "I think the repercussions were felt all over North America." Several hundred Internet servers lost power, said Martin Robson ofRobson Communications Inc. That means many corporate websites -including BC Ferries' - were down.
"We have over 200 servers located at Harbour Centre and they'reoff-line as a result of the power outage," Robson said. "A hugenumber of companies (are) off-line." Many of those organizations affected weren't even in Vancouver. Meanwhile, police said Monday that the blast was powerful enough tolift a manhole cover from its footings. Vancouver police Const. Don Duncan said police received a 911 callMonday morning reporting an explosion downtown.
"It came in as an explosion. I guess it popped and blew the manholecover off," said Duncan.
Gary Rodford, BC Hydro's senior vice-president of operations, saidHydro has backup power systems for some parts of the downtown core,but not all.
"In some ways, this highlights the need for Hydro to reinvest inits infrastructure," said Danard, noting Hydro recently wonapproval for a rate increase to do just that.
A fire Monday morning knocked out power to skyscrapers andbuildings throughout Vancouver's downtown core, causing trafficnightmares in the city and Internet woes all over North America.Power was cut to more than 2,200 Hydro customers, many of themmajor employers in the city.
"Unfortunately, we are looking at a fairly extensive repair job,"Danard said Monday night. "It could be a couple of days beforewe've completed all the splicing of all the new cable." Smoke and heat from the fire made it difficult for power crews toaccess the manhole where the blaze began. Vancouver police Cst. Tim Fanning asked drivers on Tuesday to avoiddowntown as long as the power remained off. But he said police were preparing to continue guiding traffic ifpower doesn't return Tuesday, using traffic officers and portablestop signs.
He also said the force was braced for potential overnight threatsto "people and property" in the darkened city.
"We have extra officers assigned to the affected area in caseanyone gets the wrong idea," Fanning said Monday evening. Adding to the power outage woes, Internet services for manycompanies was blacked out when one of seven backup generators atHarbour Centre, a major telecommunications and Internet hub inVancouver, conked out. Douglas Hume, vice-president and general manager of the HarbourCentre complex, said two major tenants were affected.
"Unfortunately, we're a big network of customers and clients," Humesaid. "I think the repercussions were felt all over North America." Several hundred Internet servers lost power, said Martin Robson ofRobson Communications Inc. That means many corporate websites -including BC Ferries' - were down.
"We have over 200 servers located at Harbour Centre and they'reoff-line as a result of the power outage," Robson said. "A hugenumber of companies (are) off-line." Many of those organizations affected weren't even in Vancouver. Meanwhile, police said Monday that the blast was powerful enough tolift a manhole cover from its footings. Vancouver police Const. Don Duncan said police received a 911 callMonday morning reporting an explosion downtown.
"It came in as an explosion. I guess it popped and blew the manholecover off," said Duncan.
Gary Rodford, BC Hydro's senior vice-president of operations, saidHydro has backup power systems for some parts of the downtown core,but not all.
"In some ways, this highlights the need for Hydro to reinvest inits infrastructure," said Danard, noting Hydro recently wonapproval for a rate increase to do just that.
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