Around 12:30 I couldn't get to a webpage. I glanced up to see that the modem lights were not blinking. In fact, nothing electric had any indications of life. Wow. Power outage! We never lose power in our neighbhourhood. Someplace close, in Burnaby, the major hydroelectric lines from Northern BC tie into the lower-mainland grids. That generally means that while other circuits may be affected by fallen trees, we aren't.
We cooked lunch on our Coleman campstove.
We took a short afternoon nap.
We still were without power.
We had a dinner invitation downtown, so we went down to the SkyTrain station at about 3:30. There was no service between New West and Metrotown due to downed trees on the rails. We took the Millennium loop to Commercial and got to the West End only about 10 minute later than usual.
We had lovely antipasto to kick things off. We also celebrated a Nepali festival with a 9-bean meal.
It was Tim's birthday, his 53rd.
The ducks came home to roost here for a few weeks. Maybe we can give send them off to Richmond for a Canadian Thanksgiving duck event.