Planned Power Outage - November 19th 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

The directors recieved a note from BC Hydro informing us of an upcoming power outage scheduled for November 14th. A pole replacement will be taking place and this will be the first of two planned power outages and the work should be complete by the end of the business day. Attached is a copy of the email notice we have recieved.

Vancouver Hack Space Society Mail - [vhs-bod] Planned power outage notification.pdf (218.4 KB)

This date also happens to fall JUST before Culture Crawl is expected to start and the artists reconfigure the space. The time while less than ideal is expected to finish up before the crawl starts but the artists participating will need to make some alternate plans in relation to when setting up the space will occur.

I will be trying to contact BC hydro tomorrow and see if we can get the work done on an alternate day instead (Monday November 18th is what i will propose). According to the following article they may try to find alternate days if there is a community event or celebration planned. Culture Crawl does sort of fit that description.

For now we should plan ahead for at least two power outages. This includes a planned shutdown of VHS critical infrasturcture the morning of November 14th and bringing stuff online once work has completed. Setting up for culture crawl in the dark or the day before. And figuring out some emergency lighting for those who will more than likely be floating in the space while preparations for Culture Crawl are happening. I’m running on the assumption on the date they scheduled is fixed in stone until we are told otherwise.

Thanks!
CC: BOD

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Correct the outage can’t be rescheduled, however we will still have power on our 3 phase service, but not our single phase service.

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The second power outage will be planned for Monday November 19th from 8:30 AM to 5 PM again.

4 poles in total will be affected:

  • Commercial and Adanac
  • Commercial and Venables
  • the pedestrian crossing at Venables and Woodland
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lol the timing is fantastic but glad it won’t be over the bulk of the crawl. Bring in those jack o’ lanterns (edit: lol just realized they might be kind of rotten by them). Thanks for talking to the city and figuring this stuff out.

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The November 14th power outage will be rescheduled. Time and Date TBD. The power outage on the 19th is still planned as far as we are aware.

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Amazing. Thanks for working on that!

A reminder that a power outage is still planned for Tuesday morning starting at 8:30 AM. The second power outage will be scheduled on Monday December 2nd.

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should we put a sign on the fridge and freezer to not open it during that time… maybe tape it closed?

not sure what’s even in there though

Power outage for today* has been cancelled, to be postponed for another date.