Frustrations are high on Gabriola Island, where power, internet and 911 service is still not fully restored, six days after Tuesday's storm hit.
a 48 passenger water taxi has been sourced to supplement service from the Green Dock on Gabriola to Nanaimo Harbour commencing at approximately 6pm. ^lo“They are required to have accommodation for disabled people, I think they’re required to know who they have on the boat,” said Gabriola resident Fred Apstein.
“At this point we are looking at Wednesday and Thursday when we are going to be making repairs,” said Ted Olynyk, spokesperson for BC Hydro. “So it will be an outage from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday of this week to Gabriola Island.”Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.“It’s just frustrating for residents when they don’t know what’s going on when they were not connected to internet,” said Sprogis.
“That’s the best emergency preparedness is talk to their neighbours, know what resources they have and keep in contact because they’ll need to weather the storm as a neighbourhood,” said Sprogis.
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