Quote from: RE on Jan 25, 2026, 06:19 PMAs predicted, the national electric grid is getting stressed out by the ice accumulation and broad swath of cold weather driving the demand up to record levels. How long will the outages persist and how many users will be without heat? How many will die? What's the over-under?
RE
??? It's.... a storm. I'm betting that right now...in the farthest reaches between Fort Nelson and Whitehorse....the ice machines still work.
My guess on the deathcount is..... 15 people slipping and falling on ice, 22 dying in car accidents, no one will freeze to death, a couple houses will burn down because people are using kerosene heaters and space heaters where they normally wouldn't and aren't smart enough to keep the heat sources away from curtains or other flammables, and some other silly stuff like falling on ice or running off the road into a creek and drowning.