After seeing a hot and dry start to the spring season, rain found its way to Medstead.
The clouds brought with them fierce winds and a sprinkling of lightning and thunder. On June 1, the village and area went dark at roughly 12:30 p.m. with power being restored some six hours later.
Most of the time taken to resolve the outage was with locating the problem itself. Crews were dispatched shortly after SaskPower became aware of the outage, though it was more than four hours before the problem was located. According to a SaskPower representative, the outage was 鈥渉uge and affected a lot of places.鈥� The initial outage impacted everywhere from Spiritwood to Turtleford. The latter had power restored earlier, while areas like Medstead saw power restored in the early evening.
Despite the downsides to storms rolling through, a silver lining quickly made itself clear with the lifting of the fire ban for the RM of Medstead and the village. The ban was lifted within a day of heavy rain.
These bans are intended for the overall safety of the area. The status will vary with the weather conditions and be adjusted according to risk. A close eye is kept on the status of fire bans, with ongoing risk assessment, which can be found at the Canadian Wildlife Fire Information System on the government website. Information for the status of local fire bans can be located around the village, as well as on the local fire department鈥檚 Facebook page.
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