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Message: <blockquote data-quote="armac" data-source="post: 1071730" data-attributes="member: 1390">Ottawa notesLOL.  On the very crowded bus on the way home from work yesterday, a few of us were commenting on this,and I started singing it.  Everyone laughed.Mayor Bloomberg blames Canada; our provincial governmentis telling us that it happened on the NY side of NiagaraFalls.  Should be interesting to hear exactly where ithappened.The downtown core was pretty crazy.  I was glad that Ididn't have my car yesterday, although I think I would haveleft it at work if I did.  The buses were crowded, but theygot me home quickly once they got on their privateTransitway (a bus only road going through the city). Emergency vehicles were using the Transitway too.Some of the drivers I saw downtown were just plain stupid.  I saw a police car trying to respond to a hitpedestrian.  Cars were trying to clear the middle laneof the one way street that they were on.  One lady sawthe middle lane open up, and sure enough, pulled into itahead of the police car.  The police car stopped, parked,and ran to the accident site a block away.  At uncontrolled intersections, it was fun to see how drivers felt that it was their right to move.  There was room for about five cars to go through an intersection North/South, but after one car went, the East/West drivers felt that it was obviously their turn to go...andthen found themselves stopped in the middle of theintersection.  But it was their turn to go!I called my FLGS, and found out he was staying open,so I went for the HeroClix tournament that was to runthat night.  We pulled tables outside onto the sidewalkand played while we had light.  It was fun.The pizza place next to him was open (gas fuelled ovens),and was selling a lot of pizza.  They were worried about losing thousands of dollars of cheese and toppings becausetheir freezer was out.  They were desperately calling friendsthat might have working freezers to see if they could borrowstorage space.The Dollar Store on the other side of the FLGS closed as soonas the power went out, and while we were playing HeroClix,we saw lots of people coming to see if they could buy candlesand batteries from the Dollar Store.  They lost a lot of salesthat they could have manually tracked.My FLGS had a rack of Energizer batteries that he offeredat a lower price than he normally sells for, but very few peopletook him up on the offer.  They wanted the cheap Dollar Store batteries, and didn't want to spend for the name brands.Sad to say there were 20 reported cases of looting in theOttawa area, and 2 fatalities.People in my neighbourhood were good, and cheered whenthe power came on around 23:00.  Funny thing, it came onin the nearby buildings about 5 minutes earlier, and thepeople in the buildings cheered, while those in the housesjeered.  The cheers came 5 minutes later.It stayed on for about an hour, and then went off again foraround another hour.  After that it came on until about 08:00.Since I'm not an "essential" worker, I got a day off out of this.Can't complain, although I did call my boss at 08:45 to make sure that he didn't expect me at work.  He didn't.  Oh, what'sunusual about that?  Well, I was expecting to get his cellphone's answering service, and have him call me back later.He is in Saskatchewan, and it was 06:45 there.  I hope Ididn't wake him.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The power has gone on and off a couple of times today, butwe were told brownouts would happen all day.Hope everyone is well.Angus</blockquote>

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