At ten PM on january 24, I took a cab rather than walk home from work, in torrential rain. Well, at least it was not snow, so I thought.
As I was looking at the houses on the way home, they were quiet and dark...a little too quiet and dark. Even the traffic lights were not working.
All that rain had caused power failures all over the province. I was lucky, for me in downtown Moncton it lasted only for a day but in the countryside, some places were without power for weeks.
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Le 24 janvier 2017, j'ai pris un taxi en sortant du travail plutpit que de marcher dans une pluie torrentielle. On était contents que ce ne soit pas de la neige mais au chemin, j'ai vu les maisons du coin tranquilles et sombres...un peu trop tranquilles.
La pluie verglaçante avait causé des pannes de courrant dans toute la ville! J'était chanceuse, en ville, j'ai juste passé une journée sans électricité mais à la campagne, ce calvaire allait durer des semaines.
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