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As natural disasters go, it thankfully didn’t exactly live up to the hype—at least if you live in Greater Vancouver. The very term “bomb cyclone” suggested that yesterday would bring a windstorm where you’d look out the window to see flying cows, airborne 18-wheelers, and the Wicked Witch of the West out for a ride on her handcrafted corn broom.
Instead, it was kind of breezy, but nowhere near windy enough to do what everyone hopes a windstorm will do in November: blow the leaves off the front lawn and onto your neighbour’s.
Vancouver Island got the worst of what was hysterically billed as a BC bomb cyclone, with 90,000 BC Hydro customers waking up without power this morning thanks to trees downed by 160-kilometre-per-hour gusts. The bomb cyclone also disrupted ferry travel, as all sailings between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island were cancelled, depriving thousands of their White Spot bacon cheeseburgers and sweet yam fries with chipotle mayo.
As for where we’re at today, pockets of Vancouver were indeed affected. Langara College has closed its West 49th Avenue campus until at least noon thanks to power lines being down.
Meanwhile, crews have been dispatched to areas around Vancouver to deal with outages. Those outage areas include:
- West of Main, north of Broadway, south of 6th Avenue, and east of Cambie, with 438 customers affected
- West of Dunbar, south of Cameron Avenue, north of 10th Avenue, and east of Normandy Way, with 1,219 without power
- The 6500 block of Cypress Street and 6500 block of Laburnum Street, with 18 homes affected
- The 500 block of East 12th Avenue, with five customers without power
- The 3500 block of Gladstone, with five customers affected
- The 4400 block of Collingwood Street in Dunbar, with five customers without power
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