So we got a bit of snow yesterday, and it was essentially a catastrophe. At least in that it was unexpected, early, and it manage knock out the power for a few hours.

Now I love winter, don’t get me wrong… It’s my favorite season, and it’s absolutely beautiful to boot. It seems however that no matter how prepared or unprepared we are for snow in Manitoba, we are at the mercy of a somewhat flaky power grid. I think the fact that we are in a very, very rural environment does not promote the forward-thinking required by our local government to ensure that we have redundancy in our electrical system.

I believe I will start looking for an alternate power source ( either a generator or UPS) to ensure that the next time the grid gives out, our power doesn’t.

But it *is*pretty out there :)