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It looks like this is related to another extreme weather event. An epic rainstorm. https://www.straight.com/tech/1354721/rogers-and-bell-cellph... climate change is making rain storms more powerful and intense.

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I’m assuming that the link in parent post is in error and was intended to be this one[0], which specifically mentions the connection between climate change and the extraordinarily high amounts of rain having fallen in the area around the time of the outage:

[0] https://www.straight.com/life/1354586/pineapple-express-brin...

p.s. I’ve always liked that these winter rain storms coming into BC, Canada from the general direction of Hawaii are colloquially called “Pineapple Express”.

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