Power outage and wind

Power out at 9:20 am for 5 minutes.  Strong winds expected over the next two days.  Cottages visible from the road will be check for fallen trees.

Frost

This morning there was a nice coating of frost on vegetation along the lake. Wolves have been seen feeding in the bush at the top of mill hill on the east side of the road.  A few bear hunters are along the road, but no signs of bears.  Heavy leaf fall along the road.

Unannounced power outage

Power was lost for a few minutes during the morning.

Power outage

A planned power outage for 11 am lasted until 6:55 pm today.  Apparently some hydro poles were being replaced somewhere.  2135 residences were without power.  Zero degress Celsius predicted for tonight.

Frost

Light frost on plants in open fields this morning.  But, temperature along the lake plus 7 deg. C.  Projected to a low of zero tonight..

Power outage/graded hill

Power will be out 9 am to noon, Sept. 5, 2012.  Cottage road from Forest View to Tusk has been graded.  Mill hill greatly improved.

New Lake Hydro Line

Hydro has put in a new line, 28,000kw to the island (underwater, 1/0 wire) to replace the 15,000kw line that was put in circa 1975 and is now corroding.  No new transformer required.  The line will be hooked up either next week or the week after.  They will give 3 day notice for the 2 hour poweroutage.