A Brown out is a sag or drop in voltage of the power supply generally caused by excessively high demand or inability to maintain the optimal voltage due to ice wind and snow affecting transmission lines. I think these are more common in large metropolitan centres. We often get these in Toronto in the summer on the hot humid days when A/C systems are going full tilt but last night and today we had a few.
The term Brownout comes from what you see when this occurs, usually a flickering of your lights like in a horror movie and then a diming of the lights like a dimmer switch would accomplish so the lights actually glow brown at a low voltage. You couldn't run and oven or microwave when this occurs because they wouldn't have enough power. They don't last too long generally but it is a freaky experience as I mentioned above.
U guys are making me jealous, talkin about all that snow, here we sit in 10*c weather. Like 455 says in our summer jackets playing outside in the yard, LOL. oh ya but we had RAIN last week and Lots of it. If it was just 10* colder we could of had a mess. LOL
Roads in the Lucknow, Ripley, Kincardine, Tiverton & surrounding areas
Are Snow covered with Heavy drifting. Visibility is poor to extreamly poor. Plows have been pulled off service overnight due to visibility
Its already been a long night,i couldnt find our cameras here so i could get some pics but 427carl summed it up nicely with his pics for the area up here..Have a good night all!
-- Edited by 72Endurawagon on Monday 13th of December 2010 10:35:47 PM
Roads in the Lucknow, Ripley, Kincardine, Tiverton & surrounding areas
Are Snow covered with Heavy drifting. Visibility is poor to extreamly poor. Plows have been pulled off service overnight due to visibility
Its already been a long night,i couldnt find our cameras here so i could get some pics but 427carl summed it up nicely with his pics for the area up here..Have a good night all!
We are just back on line after power outage #8 for today. God don't you just love being Canadian Who would want it another way. Ryan and I just walked the dogs it's pretty peaceful in a big city with no power and man can you ever see, almost like daylight with the snow reflecting. We were reminiscing about last winter's Olympic athletics accomplishments then about the early settlers who came here and then about our soldiers being the best there is. The common thread being the winter weather and our hearty stock Here we are walking our dogs on a cold and snowy night winds gusting to 60 kph and -26 windchill and loving every second of it.
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
You guys that are havin rain,just be thankfull you don't have to "shovel" it,just watch it run away!! I'm looking at a 4' drift across the drive & it's still "howling" out there. Think I'll wait till it dies down,no sense doing it 2 or 3 times AH!!! retirement no big rush,it will be there later too!!!!!!
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You guys that are havin rain,just be thankfull you don't have to "shovel" it,just watch it run away!!
You've got that right.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
72Endurawagon is storm stayed at work and I am storm stayed at HOME! I sold my plow truck this fall hoping to help manifest a sale on my house and the guy that bought it "promised to keep me plowed out", ha ha. He has been here twice but not since last week. I went to work yesterday bucking about 3' to get to the road (4x4 Dakota) and they sent us home at 12 as no deliveries outside of Owen Sound. Called my "trusty" plow guy and he is going to "try" to get here today, fingers are crossed!
We went most night without power in our part of Toronto. House is just starting to warm up again. I have to tell you you can't believe the noise the power going out makes, I guess it is the transformers on the various poles along the street but man it is loud thud and major short circuiting sound that wakes you out of your sleep. Freaked our youngest Airedale completely out. Anyway we don't have a lot of snow on the ground with the wind whipping off the lake more icy streets and big winds.
We should be thankful we have people like Darren making sure we have power no matter what. Even though we lost it I am sure there were plenty of people working on solving it is some nasty conditions. We take electricity for granted so Darren to you and you co-workers our thanks.
We put an outlet for our generator on the back of our house. Sounds like you might want to do the same Ray!
LOL, spring project it's a great idea. I'm thinking the way to go is self sufficiency. A friend converted to solar, cost $12k but now she sells to OPGC !
relief is finally in sight,might get to go home tonight,thanks for all the amusing entries,it really kept me company during the last 48hrs.was starting to feel like jack nicolson in the Shining but that passed a couple of hours ago,people are starting to leave as relief trickles in,take care all and stay warm
-- Edited by 72Endurawagon on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 03:31:53 PM
