Fourth Lake Country power outage within 10 days due to osprey nesting
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The osprey have been dropping debris and sticks onto the cross arm which has resulted in fires and subsequent outages.
Osprey nesting and a goose are wreaking havoc in Lake Country, causing several power outages in the last week.
More than 3,500 BC Hydro customers were without power on Thursday, including Sitara Liquor Store. The owner Herkoules Katountas said he is frustrated as this is the fourth power outage in the last 10 days.
“BC Hydro, we have no one to call, no one will answer the phone. This needs to be rectified; like, we can’t keep living this way. We can’t stay in business, and we have staff that need to get paid,” said Sitara Liquor Store owner Herkoules Katountas.
Store manager Katherine Mcilravey added that without power, the store is forced to close its doors.
“I don’t think it will be anytime soon so we are just going to shut the doors and go back home for now and then hopefully our staff member can let us know when the powers on,” said Sitara Liquor Store manager Katherine Mcilravey.
Sitara Animal Hospital echoed the same frustration as they have been forced to turn away patients.
“It’s, unfortunately, impacting our business in a negative way because our clients come from out of town,” said Sitara Animal Hospital owner Dr. Teresa Jacobson.
“Most of my clients are referred from other general practitioners and are coming from distances as far away as Revelstoke, Prince George, Fort McMurray and it is very difficult to call those clients on the day of surgery and cancel their appointment.”