Ill try to keep that in mind and while we are calling dibs I call the 5000th postIlovejaneandfinch wrote: ↑Lol I was busy replying to JACKIE26
when we reach 400 pages I'm doing the honors!
It's like the hydro infrastructure is being purchased at Dollerama.Ilovejaneandfinch wrote: ↑Before I read down to the bottom of your post I was already suggesting that bad quality of whatever is being used could be the problem. Everything seems to be cheap these days. Things will get destroyed by earthquakes and other natural disaster these days much easier than older structures which were built with care. They need to work on more robust infrastructure because if the weather gets worse with climate change we are going to need it.
u need to forecast another storm, so that people will post more. thus making less time to reach 400 pages.Ilovejaneandfinch wrote: ↑Lol I was busy replying to JACKIE26
when we reach 400 pages I'm doing the honors!
Lol I am keeping my eye out! I am not seeing anything set in stone yet, but I will start the discussion if I see something good. I am hoping to track a snowstorm soon as we are due for a good snowfall that hits the whole GTA well. This storm we are recovering from has taken up most of the posts that this thread has. That is how big it was.
Where I live it seems like when ever any thing hits us we are the first to lose power in the areaIlovejaneandfinch wrote: ↑I totally agree. they look for the cheapest ways to do things. But now it's costing us. I am sure we can do better. This is Canada
stupid Toronto Hydro 
Same here, far worse storms when I was a kid, just shoddy planning/workmanship/materials is my guess too. This storm wasn't anything major or unexpected, not like it happened in the tropics outta nowhere. This is freaking Toronto, we should be used to this crap. Like I said, it's pathetic that a whole city can be brought to its knees due to falling branches/trees. Just extremely poor planning.JACKIE26 wrote: ↑I don't understand why though we never had power outages when I was a kid. We lived in an older area homes built I think in the 40's or 50's maybe earlier, everything was above ground and never once was there a power outage. I was born in the 70's and recall far worse weather as a kid.
I live in a new subdivision now and we have power outages despite everything being buried. Thankfully we were out of town when our power went out in this storm and it came back quick before we got home. In future though when we go away in the winter I think shutting off the water and draining the pipes might be a good idea.
I don't know if burying things is a solution, maybe poor maintenance now and cheap materials used for everything are a contributing factor to some of the problems.
house to house I guess to connect them back to the gridIlovejaneandfinch wrote: ↑What does it mean to go to street level?
What happened to yearly branch and limb trimming????tranquility922 wrote: ↑Same here, far worse storms when I was a kid, just shoddy planning/workmanship/materials is my guess too. This storm wasn't anything major or unexpected, not like it happened in the tropics outta nowhere. This is freaking Toronto, we should be used to this crap. Like I said, it's pathetic that a whole city can be brought to its knees due to falling branches/trees. Just extremely poor planning.
O ok cool so does that mean that if they see the branches that are weighing down the wire connecting the street line to the house they will take those branches down for us?
