Who, exactly, is the person responsible for the rolling blackouts over the past two days? You know, the one that appears to have blown up my shiny new server and driven my router into fits from which only (and ironically) electroshock therapy can return it. I just need an address and body weight, to calculate the dosage.
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raincoaster 
In your case, the rolling blackouts are usually the responsibility of a gentleman named Johnnie Walker, or possibly Jose Cuervo.
Clearly you should stay away from calculating dosages. However, electroshock therapy seems just your speed.
As if I can afford brand-name booze. At this point I’m just slitting the wrists of bums and drinking the blood to get a secondhand high.
Didn’t your mother tell you to always get the gentleman’s name and address?
As if there are any gentlemen around here!
I found the guy responsible, Rain:
I cannot believe that you are crying the blues over just 2 days of rolling blackouts. We gulf islanders who pay the same rates for hydro as you mainlanders do are frequently faced with total blackouts due to downed power lines in the winter – blackouts that last long enough for the food in our freezers to spoil costing us a small fortune to replace.
BC Hydro never deducts the days without service – we get dinged for it even though we have no power. When there is no electricity we have no water from our wells as the pumps require electricity to draw water and that also means we have no water to flush our toilets with. We are prepared for theses eventualities on a household by household basis with stored water for flushing washing and cooking, as well as, for watering livestock. Some well off folks have generators they contribute for use for those who have medical equipment that must be kept running on a voluntary “love your neighbour” basis because so very few of us can afford to purchase a generator and many of those with health problems have seem to have the lowest incomes.
Setting those not “petty” gulf islander issues aside, we get brownouts whenever big “unsustainable” cities on Vancouver Island need more power due to the over-consumptive behaviours of their power sucking residents.
Can you tell yet that your sniveling does not impress? I say in a kindly gulf islander way – “suck it up!” You have alternatives within walking distance of where you live – we do not.
Gosh, I got so worked up that I forgot to say that when you write to BC Hydro I’ll be expecting you to let them know that you think the practice of robbing the gulf islanders of our power to fuel unsustainable cities sucks bigtime! ;-)
With respect, TT. Why is it that when I go Vancouver Island to visit relatives, I get hammered on the ferry costs? Well it’s in part to support ferry service to the Gulf Islands which does not make now and never has made a profit. It’s supported on the backs of those of us who travel the main routes. Yet every time the rates go up, guess which routes get hit hardest?
I’m not saying this to piss you off, honestly. My point is that we all make our choices about where we want to live, and the GIs are a luxury choice that comes with certain disadvantages to go with the whole Island lifestyle. Particularly the smaller islands.
If power outages are a great inconvenience, then the community should either build infrastructure (using tax money levied from the proprties that are actually served by said infrastructure) or go elsewhere.
If people can’t get water from an electric pump, what about a hand pump? Or perhaps (again using tax monies) the Islands could build municipal water systems and get everyone on the mains?
Oh, and a generator under the circumstance you’re complaining about seems less a luxury choice of the well-off than a sensible backup for all residents.
If you want to talk overconsumption, there are few less efficient ways for humans to live than as a cluster of isolated hamlets spread across several islands. An apartment building is, I’d bet, a model of efficiency by comparison. Higher density, less space, easier infrastructure construction …
Lastly, if someone is really concerned about their medical equipment, may I suggest that they move to an area where power doesn’t have to travel the trans-Gulf cable? I mean, if your life depends on it wouldn’t that strike you as the sensible thing to do?
People chose to live on those islands to get away from the perceived disadvantages of the “inefficient”, “over-consumptive” cities. Should they be shocked and offended that they lose a few of the advantages as well?
Or should they, in your words, “Suck it up”?
Yes, TT, my power circuit is set up specifically to steal power from your house. Suck it up!
Just how much power does your island contribute to the power grid, anyway?
We if you wanted to know,The gulf island are the home of major transfer cable the line build this summer and cables being now laid between galiano and tawasen. travil throught
parker island saltspring island throught my back yard just to provived power for vancouver island,do get compensated for this inconvienence and health hazerd. NO!.
but when the power goes out we’re the one who end up sucking it up,Its not a privolage to live some where its a Right in this country,If there where not so many pig headed phashists trying to tell us where to live what to drink and where to smoke,There would be an infrustructure.But No! there has to be 7 month of meeting on who’s going to be in controle of it and and seeing as no one can agree to anything the time and money waisted.
If seems one you offees get all are trees and water and close all are farms , gee what the point of having a ferry there anymore and hell if it was not for the fact that the power crosses our island to hell with I guess.
saltspring and the gulf islands pay out millions and millions of dollers a years
and don’t even get 1/3 of it back for local funding htey sucked us dry for so many year
we pay for our owen hospital wiht donations
from local family./
If the gulf islands became a co-oprative
we own the two money making ferry there are
fulford to swartz and vasuvius to crofton
all the other ship lose money on there runs