Mum said the that the peeps on the radio were REPEATEDLY trying to tell the listeners that a set of traffic lights without power is a 4-way STOP fer gosh sakes! There were at least 4 accidents early on in the outage on just ONE 2 km stretch of road next to us. It's amazing and sacrey! I saw it first hand during our last two ourtages... at one intersection I had to lay on the horn and wave a woman to PLEASE GO... even tho there was an RCMP officer waving at her from across the intersection. I assume he could not go out into the intersection as it was too dangerous.

It's still gusty enough for me to keep the potted plants in the garage. Double impatiens and especially the begonias don't care for wind much over 50 kph. It wouldn't hurt them much but why bother just yet?

9... you don't have a river level pole nearby? Odd.