Hydro has tweeted the bad news that unexpected “equipment failure” continues to leave as many as 5,000 customers in the dark even though the utility had said it expected to have things fixed by 1 p.m. The curious outages are in “pockets” according to Hydro, testing no doubt the understanding of laymen and maybe some engineers too. The power failures hit about 6 a.m in an area defined as Ossington, St Clair, Mt. Pleasant and College. Police warned that traffic signals were out as well. There was also an outage in West Hill where some customers seem to feel forgotten as far as updates are concerned. One tweet from Dalek Deegue complained about the lack of information at the Toronto Hydro outage map. This is a place which purports to show outages but frequently shows nothing. See tweets here
