The two incidents were unrelated as far as I heard. I spoke to a Shaw representative during the outage and he said it covered all of Southern Alberta. I doubt that Shaw would have so much running through a single above ground wire that it could knock out half of the province. My son called me when the cable and internet shut down but the phones (ours is through Shaw) continued. A couple of hours later we had cable back but the phones died until after midnight. I'm not sure when internet came back as I'd gone to bed by then.
----- Original Message ---- From: Kin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:17:21 AM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Shaw outage? Ian Bruseker wrote: >On 6/16/06, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Anyone know what caused last night's outage? >> >> >> http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/citybeat/public/2006/06/release.20060615_233632_27216_0 > >To expound on the above based on what I heard on the radio this >morning, a power pole caught fire and fell over, hitting two people >and blocking the C-Train line. That pole apparently either also >carried cable service, or just the loss of power somehow affected Shaw >(that's pretty close to their office on Cemetary Hill), but either way >that's why your cable and internet didn't work last night. :-) > >Ian > > I believe it was a power pole to the c-train that shorted and caught on fire. Apparently two pedestrians (co-workers) were injured by the downed power line. The guy got hit and knocked down by the power line but managed to shield the lady. Both got some burns. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
