OFFICIAL 2019 Extreme Weather Thread

[revelations]

I wonder if the neighbourhood loses power - do Shaw and Telus both go down?

I have dual WAN for the odd outage (plus other reasons) but always wondered if one ISP has their power setup a little differently that the other (eg. shaw powers its pedestals more centrally than Telus so a block without power does not mean internet goes down).

EDIT - also HWY 1 closed, by Calaway park due to car pileup.

[max_boost]

Holy wtf this weather lol

[Brent.ff]

I get to go pick up my wife from Mac hall... this is gonna be hell

[ianmcc]

Was meaning to switch to summer rubber-glad I am a bit of a procrastinator.

[firebane]

Well girlfriend was driving home and hit some slush and said driving home car lost power and said sounds like it's misfiring.

Ugh

[speedog]

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You have spare batteries lying around? That’s pretty hardcore haha.

Staying in, tv and internet uninterrupted. Doesn’t feel like I’ve had power problems for years now, feels good to be prepared.

Got a bunch from another beyond member recently, came in handy. You want some?

[Tik-Tok]

Meanwhile my 4 year old just decided this weather is awesome and put her winter gear on to go play outside.

[speedog]

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I wonder if the neighbourhood loses power - do Shaw and Telus both go down?

I have dual WAN for the odd outage (plus other reasons) but always wondered if one ISP has their power setup a little differently that the other (eg. shaw powers its pedestals more centrally than Telus so a block without power does not mean internet goes down).

EDIT - also HWY 1 closed, by Calaway park due to car pileup.

When I left TELUS some 11+ years ago, everything was on TELUS' own power, now TELUS pedestal mounted equipment will have considerably less run time on their internal DC plant than a central office would but a power hit would still be nothing to them. Most central offices have deisel backup generators and the Len Werry building downtown used to have a couple of turbines mounted on its top floor for backup power generation.

[adam c]

No power issues in McKenzie however visibility across the back alley is next to none

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I wonder if the neighbourhood loses power - do Shaw and Telus both go down?

I have dual WAN for the odd outage (plus other reasons) but always wondered if one ISP has their power setup a little differently that the other (eg. shaw powers its pedestals more centrally than Telus so a block without power does not mean internet goes down).

EDIT - also HWY 1 closed, by Calaway park due to car pileup.

The telcos all have backup power, at least that’s my assumption. Years ago when we had a community blackout for 20 mins, Shaw stayed up for me through the whole thing.

[killramos]

Have had a lot of flashing but no major outages. Kindof nuts.

[max_boost]

Thank you snow. Business booming today lol

[Darell_n]

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The telcos all have backup power, at least that’s my assumption. Years ago when we had a community blackout for 20 mins, Shaw stayed up for me through the whole thing.

Any place important has diesel generators. The new blood bank I just finished up near the airport has triple redundant diesel generators.

[Maxt]

It's been 8-10 years since I did Shaw work, but the community hub sites all had generators with either small or big block Gm's, depending on the size of the site, running on natural gas.

[tonytiger55]

I had to drive to downtown this eve(from SE). Roads were terrible. They were even worse going home. DF was bad. Its the constant mini hydroplaning.
I think something went wrong with my exhaust too.

[spikerS]

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I wonder if the neighbourhood loses power - do Shaw and Telus both go down?

I have dual WAN for the odd outage (plus other reasons) but always wondered if one ISP has their power setup a little differently that the other (eg. shaw powers its pedestals more centrally than Telus so a block without power does not mean internet goes down).

EDIT - also HWY 1 closed, by Calaway park due to car pileup.

I can't speak to Shaw, but,

TELUS powers the vast majority of their DSLAMs (distribution hub before signal arrives to your house) from the Central offices located at various points in communities. These central offices run "power pairs" carrying current and signals out to the DSLAMs to keep them powered and the internet signal to your house. So, while your house may not have commercial power, the CO might be a kilometer away and still running on commercial power, thus the DSLAM is also up, and you still have internet. All TELUS COs have power redundancy, either in the form of HUGE battery banks or backup generators, or even both. So if commercial power is lost at the CO, it will still function normally on DC battery or off of generator.

In the event that a particular DSLAM loses power, they all have the ability to have a small 2000w portable generator hooked up to power the equipment while the power pairs are fixed.

[revelations]

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When I left TELUS some 11+ years ago, everything was on TELUS' own power, now TELUS pedestal mounted equipment will have considerably less run time on their internal DC plant than a central office would but a power hit would still be nothing to them. Most central offices have deisel backup generators and the Len Werry building downtown used to have a couple of turbines mounted on its top floor for backup power generation.

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The telcos all have backup power, at least that’s my assumption. Years ago when we had a community blackout for 20 mins, Shaw stayed up for me through the whole thing.

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It's been 8-10 years since I did Shaw work, but the community hub sites all had generators with either small or big block Gm's, depending on the size of the site, running on natural gas.

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I can't speak to Shaw, but,

TELUS powers the vast majority of their DSLAMs (distribution hub before signal arrives to your house) from the Central offices located at various points in communities. These central offices run "power pairs" carrying current and signals out to the DSLAMs to keep them powered and the internet signal to your house. So, while your house may not have commercial power, the CO might be a kilometer away and still running on commercial power, thus the DSLAM is also up, and you still have internet. All TELUS COs have power redundancy, either in the form of HUGE battery banks or backup generators, or even both. So if commercial power is lost at the CO, it will still function normally on DC battery or off of generator.

In the event that a particular DSLAM loses power, they all have the ability to have a small 2000w portable generator hooked up to power the equipment while the power pairs are fixed.

THANKS! great info and insight

[cyra1ax]

Cancelled my Avengers tickets. Wouldn't have gotten out of there until 2am and the roads sound shitty enough to not be worth it.

[88CRX]

Roads are shit.

All seasons were slipping all over the place. Summers are a guaranteed fail.

[taemo]

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Cancelled my Avengers tickets. Wouldn't have gotten out of there until 2am and the roads sound shitty enough to not be worth it.

I was wondering how many people ended up missing their show time this evening because of this weather.

roads were ok IMO, typical winter road condition.. visibility was the biggest challenge due to wind.
we were hoping to go to the superstore for some quick grocery around 6:30pm and country hills was a parking lot.
we decided to turn around and head back home (deerfoot, stoney trail and metis trail were all backed up as well)