The FoxCreek community experienced a power outage from Christmas Day, Monday, 25-Dec-2017/3:30pm to Wednesday, 27-Dec-2017/11:15am caused by trees taking down the power lines due to strong winds. The outages were widespread and affected most of Nova Scotia.
FOXweather was not affected.
FOXlive data was partially affected when Continue reading Power Outage, 25-Dec-2017
In the Region of Queens, [household] waste collection is every second week as indicated on your 2018 Waste Collection Schedule (pdf). Green carts, blue bags and garbage bags are picked up on the same day.
Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day. Collection occurs on all holidays except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2018
click picture to enlarge … Continue reading The Port Grocer Calendar of Events – December/2017
The FoxCreek community experienced a power outage on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 from 01:38am to 3:29pm caused by trees taking the power lines down due to strong winds.
FOXweather was partially affected as data was collected but could not be broadcasted from 1:26pm to 3:40pm due to depletion of the battery backup.
FOXlive data was collected but no broadcast took place after 11:06pm when the system was shut down as a precaution. FOXlive was up and broadcasting again at 3:54pm. Continue reading Power Outage, 23-Nov-2017
On 20-Nov-2017 both access roads to the FoxCreek community
– Old Kettle Rd from Mill Village to the Fox Creek turnaround
– Medway Harbour Rd, from Hwy 331 to the turnaround
have been partially filled and scraped … finally!
While the roads look nice and smooth, they are not – smooth.
Be extra careful for the time being and Continue reading FoxCreek Community Access Roads Graded
The FoxCreek community along with neighboring communities experienced a short power outage today, 15-Nov from 3:14pm to 5:03pm caused by trees on power lines.
FOXweather was not affected and data was updated and broadcasted during the outage.
FOXlive was updated but unable to broadcast its data during the outage and until 10:16pm.
No weather data was lost.
click picture to enlarge … Continue reading The Port Grocer Calendar of Events – November/2017
Our websites – FOXweather and FOXlive – were outdated today, Monday 23-Oct-2017 from 11:00h to 16:29h ADT due to a connection problem with our hosting provider.
Twitter, WeatherUnderground and WeatherCloud feeds were unaffected and kept up-to-date.
No weather data was lost.
Thank you for your patience.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends in USA and Canada !!!
The term “spring forward – fall back” is meant to trigger your memory to set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST, and one hour back in the fall when DST ends.
In most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities when local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, 5-Nov-2017, 02:00h (2am) clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, 5-Nov- 2017, 01:00h (1am) local standard time instead!
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on 5-Nov-2017 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.
Wildfire Risk Season 2017 ended.
Burning restrictions are lifted as of 16-Oct-2017 until and including 14-Mar-2018.
During the fall/winter months from 16-Oct-2017 until and including 14-Mar-2018 brush fires are allowed 24 hours/day. It is no longer mandatory to consult the Burnsafe website before starting a fire.
However please use common sense when making brush fires by taking weather conditions into account. Even in winter months the soil can become fairly dry and also avoid fires on windy days!
Thank you!
Winter Brush Burning!
Safe Brush Burning checklist!
Nova Scotia Burning Restriction (for your reference).
