(Not) Powerless

Peter Rukavina

We woke up to a house without power—turns out that a section of our street lost power at 4:00 a.m.—and thus without coffee.

A screenshot from the Maritime Electric website showing a power outage on Prince Street overlaid on a map of downtown Charlottetown. The area of the outage is indicated by a blue line.

Fortunately Hurricane Fiona prepared us for this, and the emergency backup coffee system deployed.

A pour-over coffee setup on a kitchen counter, in low light.

As we were drinking coffee, we noticed Maritime Electric workers replacing a transformer on a nearby pole:

A blue power company bucket truck from a distance with its bucket extended and two workers engaged in repair work.

This explains the big bang we heard while we were asleep.

I happened to have my head out the window just before 8:00 when the line worker flipped the transformer on with a long orange pole: the power came on instantly. It was like watching God’s lightswitch. 

Maritime Electric
Coffee

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