#Wawa ontario

[motelpearl]

[injuredcyclist]

Some of the picutes from my trip. I did the Lake Superior Circle Tour, running counter clockwise from the Soo west. All told, I was gone six days and covered about 1,750 miles.

[the-iron-fjord]

Sorry, I made a trip to Wawa to get some cheap nachos, but I’m back just in time for another edition of Megumi Fax™, from The Iron Fjord!

Megumi Fact #45: Megumi once got lost at Wawa for like 3 hours, but she was able to buy a bag of Bold BBQ Doritos to eat, and a hot dog (the hotdog gave her a tummy ache, unfortunately).

AND THIS HAS BEEN MEGUMI FAX, FROM THE IRON FJORD!

[20th-century-railroading]

"ACR helen siding"

East of Wawa, Ontario amid the smelter downwind moonscape is a sintered ore train for the Algoma Steel plant in Sault Ste. Marie. The official location of this Algoma Central train is Helen siding on the Michipicoten branch which ran west out of Hawk Junction on June 23, 1992. The smelter was later closed, with both it and this branchline being removed in the late 90's.

[rabbitcruiser]

Excellent Food and Drinks on My Vacations (No. 18)

I travelled a lot; and still do. I love to eat and have a nice drink. Here are some of the best foods, drinks and wines I had to pleasure to enjoy. It starts with this year and goes back in time. I hope you like the pics as much as I loved this food.

Please contact me, if you want some further information about the food and/or restaurants.  

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Family doctors in rural northeastern Ontario say emergency rooms are at higher risk than ever of closure this fall.

The warning comes as many health-care facilities in the region grapple with a deepening doctor shortage.

Most big cities have doctors who specialize in emergency care.

However, in rural communities in the north, family doctors have their own clinics and are also responsible for providing emergency care.

"It's really a crisis situation in the north right now and a lot of family doctors in many communities are barely hanging on to keep their emergency rooms open," said Dr. Anjali Oberai, a family physician in Wawa. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[omgkalyppso]

Your OTP as GIFs

from an old game, but I'm not doing it exactly the same way as before because search engines have greatly deteriorated since then.

Tagging @umbralstars, @boghermit, @lucius-the-sinful, @lovely-english-rose, @jackalopedread and YOU.

Étoile x Astarion

Originally posted by nancykali

I wanted to find a gift related to the keyword Trust but had to give that up after like an hour of fruitless search. So instead we have the moment from Bram Stoker's Dracula where after attempting to refuse Mina his blood because he was feeling guilty about corrupting her, Mina says to her monster, "Take me away from all this death." And. Well.

Étoile x Halsin

No idea what this gif is from, but I couldn't resist. While ultimately I do think it was part of the writer's insensitivity to polyamory to have Halsin be relationship averse, and then turn his epilogue content into fan service — I really like aromantic Halsin expressing love in his own way and not wanting "a relationship" or labels.

Étoile x Zevlor

I don't remember what's being said in this scene, but the romance in the movie Snow Cake is a Very Small part of the movie, but Alan Rickman's character does have a complicated relationship with Carrie-Ann Moss's character — a win for "fucking that old man." The main character of the film is dealing with life after having assaulted (and accidentally killed) the drunk driver who hit and killed his child. He is also present / indirectly responsible (but feels greatly responsible) for the death of a hitchhiker, which brings him to Wawa, Ontario where he meets the hitchhiker's mother, a disabled (autistic?) woman played by Sigourney Weaver. It's a really heavy movie that I only saw once but the layers of it and the fleeting comforts and difficult intimacy of it made this a good gif for what's going on with Étoile and poor Zevlor.

Étoile x Komira x Locke

Another Sense8 gif. The woman in the middle, Kala, had a lot of anxiety about being in love with the man on the left Wolfgang, while living a life that was leading her to be with her betrothed, the man on the right, Rajan. This is also an extremely small sideplot of this show that was hastily wrapped up in the movie / final "episode." It was kind of silly but tbh I enjoyed this particular "unrealistic" resolution where Rajan was willing to explore what love would look like (even initially in an extremely sexual sense) with Wolfgang if it meant Kala's happiness / not losing her heart. A fair, if inaccurate, comparison to be made for how in my primary canon-compliant state for Étoile, I'd ship them with werewolf!Komira but leave Locke to his fate in the House of Healing; though I'd imagine the three of them would have very enthusiastic joy and supportive love in other au's.

Étoile x He Who Was

I wanted to find a gif of love of someone/thing that was not completely human for He Who Was. I first thought of Meet Joe Black, and the few surreal moments, and the moment when his love interest asks him to stay, but I couldn't find a gif of the exact moment I wanted. I'd only seen The Time Traveller's Wife movie once and it was straighter than I remembered, the dialogue in the gifs I found was all wrong for Étoile and He Who Was' dynamic. I just wanted reference to the waiting, to the loss, to the not knowing if your supernatural love would return. Oh well. Instead I was looking up characters described as masochists (intended for He Who Was, but I guess observations can be made about Étoile which would be ... entirely correct), and found Marko from The Lost Boys, like the rest of them. In the scene I chose, they're initiating a (the?) protagonist into their vampire gang, jumped from a bridge and hanging to the beams while a train rushes overhead, scaring their initiate and having the time of their lives. I think He Who Was has a manic excitable laugh in his euphoria and that he enjoys the presence of danger, negotiated and known not to be a sincere threat against him and his holy missions. He and Étoile have a lot of fun in the limitations of a relationship across planes.

[x75-productions]

Former Cap Chris Simon Passes Away

Former Cap Chris Simon Passes Away Former Washington Capital Chris Simon has passed away. TXHT pays tribute to the former Stanley Cup Champion. #ALLCAPS #GoAvsGo #NYR #Isles #Flames #Blackhawks #MNWild

It is with sad news today that we have learned of the passing of former Washington Capitals forward Chris Simon. Washington Capitals statement on the passing of club alum Chris Simon: pic.twitter.com/NaQGBJK5wX— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 19, 2024 Simon, who was born in Wawa, Ontario, Canada, was drafted into the NHL 25th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1990 NHL Draft, but…

[sparrowsarus]

18 and 39, mclorne for the trope mash up

Circus AU and Survival/Wilderness? damn bro

For this I think I would crib from the most webcomic of all time, Girl Genius, who, uh, actually has this combination.

I'm thinking Cirque De Soleil style circus. Rodney is the special effects guy, and has been ever since he graduated with a second doctorate, got overwhelmed with being done school forever, and ran away to join the circus. Now he does sound, lighting, special effects, all of it. He's actually really famous in certain circles. He's won awards.

They're on the road, again, heading to Montreal from Winnipeg; it's a long drive, and there isn't much to see beyond trees and rocks and the gas station in Marathon or Wawa or Dryden or whatever that town is--it doesn't matter, they're all the same.

But something happens, and Rodney ends up veering off the road or crashed or something, and finds himself in the bush. He is...panicking.

and then he runs into Canada Parks Ranger Evan Lorne, who has also ended up stuck in the Ontario wilderness, and is praying they find a river soon, to follow up or down or across of something, to get this guy to just stop panicking for five minutes. It can't be good for his heart.

(or Evan's, when he catches the look in McKay's eyes when he catches a glimpse of the stars he left behind)

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Wawa, Ontario, Canada, [oc], [1472 × 935]

[motelpearl]

[newsakd]

[ad_1] TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario’s electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more.“It looks like we’ve had a disturbance,” Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a massive understatement.He didn’t know at the time that problems in Ohio had caused 50 million people to lose power in the northeastern United States and Ontario. That included the entire province east of Wawa except for small pockets in the Niagara and Cornwall areas. It was the worst blackout in North American history.The 30,000 alarms, however, and their accompanying noises and visuals were a pretty good clue of the scale of the “disturbance.”“It’s very comparable to someone winning the jackpot in a casino or walking into casino and hearing all the noises, but every noise actually means something to you,” Parcey says 20 years later. Story continues below advertisement “My desk itself has 11 computer monitors on it and one of them is dedicated just to alarms. So (when you hear) that initial ‘gong,’ you look over at your alarm screen. I recognized the first four or five alarms and then everything just scrolled right off the page.”Outside the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) control room that day, most people in the province were dealing with their own disturbances — walking home for hours because the subway in Toronto was shut down, ordinary citizens volunteering to direct traffic with no signals to guide drivers, and neighbours barbecuing and sharing fridge cleanout meals by candlelight. Investigations would later determine that a series of failures in Ohio triggered the blackout. A system monitoring tool was not working, then a generating unit tripped off in an overloaded portion of the grid, and then overheated transmission lines began sagging into overgrown trees and tripping.By the time officials realized the system was in jeopardy, it was too late to intervene and the collapse sent unsustainable loads into neighbouring jurisdictions.In Ontario, the IESO says a series of large power swings pulsed into the province’s grid interconnections at Michigan and New York.David Robitaille, now a senior director of market operations at the IESO, had just landed at Toronto’s Pearson airport when the power went off. Story continues below advertisement He had been in New Jersey, working with colleagues from other jurisdictions that are part of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which sets electricity standards to ensure functionality and security of the power grid.Ironically, Robitaille had been working on developing the NERC’s first set of grid standards.After landing, he had to disembark the plane away from the gate and sensed there was trouble. The chaos at customs proved he was right.At the IESO, Parcey and his team took a minute to shake off the initial confusion before setting about getting the grid back on track.“We train for this sort of thing constantly,” he says. “You take your pause for a second and then (say) ‘OK, what do we have left?’ and then try to understand the scope of the event, and then we’re trying to stabilize what’s left. Once that’s stabilized, then basically our next task is start to restore off-grid power to the nuclear plants.”The IESO doesn’t directly turn switches on and off, but the act of grid restoration involves co-ordinating with power generators and companies like Hydro One that operate the transmission lines.“The job is very similar to air traffic control, but we do it for electricity,” Parcey says.On Aug. 14, 2003, IESO staff were on a bank of six phones for about 20 hours straight — trading off in shifts of four hours — giving those instructions, Parcey recalls. Story continues below advertisement The nuclear plants can run indefinitely without that off-site power or can just shut down into safe mode, Parcey said, so safety wasn’t the main concern, but they provide a large percentage of Ontario’s electricity generation.To open up a transmission path from that pocket of generation in Niagara Falls up to the Bruce Power nuclear complex, for example, it’s a delicate balancing act energizing circuits and adding some load if the voltage starts to increase too much.“It’s one step after another,” Parcey says. “You take baby steps until you get to a point where you have enough connected that you can take larger steps.” Trending Now Hundreds of thousands moving to Calgary, making city unaffordable Fiery heart on Tofino beach video fans flames of anger The grid’s 18,000 kilometres of transmission lines were restored by midnight and most customers had power back the next day.Many Ontarians heeded officials’ calls to reduce their electricity consumption for the next week in order to assist with recovery efforts and Parcey says that helped tremendously.All told, there was a net loss of 18.9 million work hours, and manufacturing shipments in Ontario were down $2.3 billion that August, according to a report by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force.But most will likely remember the day for the unique moments it sparked among co-workers, neighbours or complete strangers.“Listening to a lot of the stories afterwards, it was very Canadian experience,” Parcey says. “I think people really came together.” Story continues below advertisement 2:07 Ontario to increase reliance on natural gas to stabilise electricity grid Ontario’s current energy minister, Todd Smith, was a news director for a radio station in Belleville, Ont., in August 2003.After working the morning shift, he was golfing with friends when word got out the power for the entire eastern seaboard had shut down.“I then quickly jumped in my car and headed into the radio station,” he recalled.When he arrived at the station, he realized the blackout was far bigger than a local story.“It was just very surreal to see every traffic light out, and not just in places like Belleville and Trenton, but right across the province and a large portion of North America,” he said.Smith, who was elected as a Progressive Conservative MPP for Bay of Quinte in 2011, said Ontario learned from the blackout and has since become a leading advocate for grid standards. Story continues below advertisement Robitaille, of the NERC, agrees that “the resilience of the system is much better now than what it once was,” noting that the NERC standards have been established with audits held every three years.But, Smith warned, “we can’t take reliability for granted.”“Every time I fly over the waterfront in Toronto at night and I see all the lights that are on in all of the buildings, I certainly think about the responsibility that we have for those of us who work in the energy sector.”–With files from Liam Casey and William Eltherington [ad_2] Source link

[shahananasrin-blog]

[ad_1] At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario's electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more. "It looks like we've had a disturbance," Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a massive understatement. He didn't know at the time that problems in Ohio had caused 50 million people to lose power in the northeastern United States and Ontario. That included the entire province east of Wawa except for small pockets in the Niagara and Cornwall areas. It was the worst blackout in North American history. The 30,000 alarms, however, and their accompanying noises and visuals were a pretty good clue of the scale of the "disturbance." "It's very comparable to someone winning the jackpot in a casino or walking into casino and hearing all the noises, but every noise actually means something to you," Parcey says 20 years later. "My desk itself has 11 computer monitors on it and one of them is dedicated just to alarms. So (when you hear) that initial 'gong,' you look over at your alarm screen. I recognized the first four or five alarms and then everything just scrolled right off the page." Outside the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) control room that day, most people in the province were dealing with their own disturbances — walking home for hours because the subway in Toronto was shut down, ordinary citizens volunteering to direct traffic with no signals to guide drivers, and neighbours barbecuing and sharing fridge cleanout meals by candlelight. Investigations would later determine that a series of failures in Ohio triggered the blackout. A system monitoring tool was not working, then a generating unit tripped off in an overloaded portion of the grid, and then overheated transmission lines began sagging into overgrown trees and tripping. By the time officials realized the system was in jeopardy, it was too late to intervene and the collapse sent unsustainable loads into neighbouring jurisdictions. In Ontario, the IESO says a series of large power swings pulsed into the province's grid interconnections at Michigan and New York. David Robitaille, now a senior director of market operations at the IESO, had just landed at Toronto's Pearson airport when the power went off. He had been in New Jersey, working with colleagues from other jurisdictions that are part of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which sets electricity standards to ensure functionality and security of the power grid. Ironically, Robitaille had been working on developing the NERC's first set of grid standards. After landing, he had to disembark the plane away from the gate and sensed there was trouble. The chaos at customs proved he was right. At the IESO, Parcey and his team took a minute to shake off the initial confusion before setting about getting the grid back on track. "We train for this sort of thing constantly," he says. "You take your pause for a second and then (say) 'OK, what do we have left?' and then try to understand the scope of the event, and then we're trying to stabilize what's left. Once that's stabilized, then basically our next task is start to restore off-grid power to the nuclear plants." The IESO doesn't directly turn switches on and off, but the act of grid restoration involves co-ordinating with power generators and companies like Hydro One that operate the transmission lines. "The job is very similar to air traffic control, but we do it for electricity," Parcey says. On Aug. 14, 2003, IESO staff were on a bank of six phones for about 20 hours straight — trading off in shifts of four hours — giving those instructions, Parcey recalls. The nuclear plants can run indefinitely without that off-site power or can just shut down into safe mode, Parcey said, so safety wasn't the main concern, but they provide a large percentage of Ontario's electricity generation. To open up a transmission path from that pocket of generation in Niagara Falls up to the Bruce Power nuclear complex, for example, it's a delicate balancing act energizing circuits and adding some load if the voltage starts to increase too much. "It's one step after another," Parcey says. "You take baby steps until you get to a point where you have enough connected that you can take larger steps." The grid's 18,000 kilometres of transmission lines were restored by midnight and most customers had power back the next day. Many Ontarians heeded officials' calls to reduce their electricity consumption for the next week in order to assist with recovery efforts and Parcey says that helped tremendously. All told, there was a net loss of 18.9 million work hours, and manufacturing shipments in Ontario were down $2.3 billion that August, according to a report by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force. But most will likely remember the day for the unique moments it sparked among co-workers, neighbours or complete strangers. "Listening to a lot of the stories afterwards, it was very Canadian experience," Parcey says. "I think people really came together." Ontario's current energy minister, Todd Smith, was a news director for a radio station in Belleville, Ont., in August 2003. After working the morning shift, he was golfing with friends when word got out the power for the entire eastern seaboard had shut down. “I then quickly jumped in my car and headed into the radio station,” he recalled. When he arrived at the station, he realized the blackout was far bigger than a local story. “It was just very surreal to see every traffic light out, and not just in places like Belleville and Trenton, but right across the province and a large portion of North America," he said. Smith, who was elected as a Progressive Conservative MPP for Bay of Quinte in 2011, said Ontario learned from the blackout and has since become a leading advocate for grid standards. Robitaille, of the NERC, agrees that "the resilience of the system is much better now than what it once was," noting that the NERC standards have been established with audits held every three years. But, Smith warned, "we can't take reliability for granted." “Every time I fly over the waterfront in Toronto at night and I see all the lights that are on in all of the buildings, I certainly think about the responsibility that we have for those of us who work in the energy sector." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2023. --With files from Liam Casey and William Eltherington  [ad_2]

[fleurcareil]

North Ontario (1): Lake Superior provincial park

Disclaimer: you'll be bored out of your mind with all the nature pics in the next few posts 😁, but this country is so freaking beautiful that I can't resist... I spent very happily the first chunk of my road trip in the Maritimes, as the sea is pretty no matter what, but Ontario's lakes, and especially Lake Superior with its vast water surrounded by the Canadian Shield rocks & boreal forest is something to behold!! 😍

Lake Superior is the "greatest of them all" being the largest freshwater lake in the world with 82,100 square km of surface area, is up to 400m deep and holds 10% of the Earth's fresh water. Add in history from First Nations, logging, shipwrecks, WWII prisoner of war camps, railroad & highway construction, as well as Group of Seven art plus friendly people everywhere, and this is a majestic place to be! I spent eight days camping in four different parks on the way from Sault Ste Marie to Thunder Bay and I could easily stay another 8 days more 😊. Just seeing that immense body of water is awe-insipring!

Having left the Soo quite late after the Barbie movie & the usual groceries/gas/LCBO run, I skipped a few beaches, waterfalls and hikes (that I aim to do on the way back) so that I arrived 1.5hrs later at my campsite in the south part of Lake Superior provincial park in time to enjoy dinner with front water view! Bliss... 💖

Dressed warmly for the night as it was chilly on the lake, and woke up with a blue sky and calm water... paddling time!! I got quite far out into another bay along big rocks above & below water, which is crystal clear so those huge blocks deep below can easily be seen from the SUP 😊. The wind did pick up (against me) on the way back so as always, I was happy to be back onshore without falling in!

I then made my way north into the park doing three little hikes; first looking for Indigenous pictographs on a huge cliff straight on the water (having to hold onto chains for some of it!). The pictographs are not as clearly defined as the Bon Echo ones but a very special experience nevertheless! Nearby Sinclair Cove looked really pretty to SUP so possibly on the way back?!?

Next, a small hike around a marsh that was relaxing but unsurprisingly without mooooose 😂 mid-day (it was 27 degrees by now), and then a hike along a river with several waterfalls...the one in the pic is in a Group of Seven painting. Ended the day with a swim in the surprisingly warm water at Katherine Cove's sandy beach and then just chilled at the campfire...after 2 hours of paddling and 8.5km hiking my beer & s'more was well deserved! 😊

Next morning, it was too windy to paddle, so hoolahooped on the beach instead 😎 and then made a short stop at pretty Old Woman's Bay in the north part of the park (too dark clouds to take pretty pics). I had just reached Wawa's famous Goose where the last part of the Trans-Canada highway was completed in 1960 (and where the visitor centre has pretty chairs) when it started pouring so ended up eating chicken fingers & fries in the car instead of at a picknick table 👍.   

Wildlife: 1 bald eagle & 1 otter

SUPs: one

Hikes: three

[loiswolf]

Day 52 July 22 White Lake Lodge - Wawa 121km

I’m not sure why I was worried about covering the distance today. I knew it was going to be flatter. Maybe because it took all day yesterday to ride 72kms and today was 50kms further.

Anyway, it was pretty easy. There was still a beautiful view from my cabin this morning, it’s a shame I had to leave!

I was ready to go at 7:30 heading off early for my second breakfast at White River.

It was another perfect day and the clouds reflected in this lake looked stunning.

At least there was a reasonable distance to cycle before White River. I’d covered 26kms before rolling up to Robin’s Donuts. My impression of Robin’s Donuts had been somewhat skewed from the motel/Pizza Hut/gas station/Robins Donuts back in Schreiber where there had just been a few sad looking donuts in a glass cabinet. The one in White River was great. It’s like a cheap imitation of Tim Hortons. I enjoyed a toasted cheese bagel and coffee, purchased a biscuit ( scone) and donut to go, and it was only $8. It would have been twice that in Tim Hortons.

I didn’t stay long….I had another 90+kms to conquer. The kilometre ticked by pretty easily with moderate hills and a good road with a shoulder. These signs proclaimed that section of the Trans-Canada Highway as a cycle route.

Amazing how as soon as the shoulder deteriorated 50kms up the road the signs disappeared. What’s that about? The cyclist are just supposed to drop in where it starts after White River then get beamed up when the shoulder is rubbish?

I had seen signs for a Midway Lodge about 46kms from White River but wasn’t too hopeful that it would be open. I’ve cycled by several derelict motels over the past few days.

The sign looked quite new when I reached the motel and the building was ok too. They had a chain halfway across the driveway indicating that it was shut. I cycled in anyway thinking I could sit on the bench outside to have my break.

Then I noticed there were vehicles around the back so I walked around and asked Trevor for a cup of coffee. No problem! Trevor and his friend were slightly rougher company than I am used to but the coffee was good and I had someone to talk to. They were there doing renovations on the motel. It’s good to know it will be opening again soon…although not too soon considering the rate at which those two were working. Or not working!

I probably stayed a bit longer than intended but I knew I was going to make it to Wawa with plenty of time to spare. I can’t tell you why I needed to be there before 5pm today…..you’ll have to wait until tomorrow. 😁

Next photo worthy sign was this one.

I’ve been noting these gradually increasing numbers since in entered Ontario 10 days ago. I’ve covered 1000kms of Ontario. It’s a much bigger province than all the others I’ve crossed.

The wind was blowing from the side and occasionally the front for the last 30kms so I was happy to see the turnoff for Wawa even though it was at the top of a hill. I don’t know what this big bird…duck….whatever signifies but there were a couple of others on the way into town.

I’d beaten my deadline by two and a half hours. Of course! Was there ever any doubt?

The motel check in wasn’t until 3:30 so I went back to the supermarket to get supplies. There is a music festival in town tonight so I don’t think it’s going to be a quiet one!

I’ve done the above map differently, marking the places I’ve stayed with a red squiggle so you can get a better idea of where I’ve been.

[blue-car-road-tripper]

There once was a cow who escaped a transport accident. He was sighted along highway 17 North roaming free and enjoying his freedom. Nobody thought he would survive a northern Ontario winter, especially up beside Lake Superior. But, he did!!!!

He was tracked and found and along with him they found two escaped steers. Guess I won’t have to look for him on my travels now 😆🚙

STORY BELOW ⬇️

UPDATE:

Wawa cow tracking updates! To those who thought the cow left on highway may not have survived the winter or thought was shot. It was not!

Thank you to the team effort groups organized in assisting tracking the cow. We named him Tucker. (Reference article cottage life)

Thank you to the man, woman, sons, all organizers in group networking, drivers, trucker, and trackers, dispatch, opp, wawa gas station, plow guys, and tips!

TUCKER SURVIVED THE WINTER, He also was not alone. Two steers where found for the month end of may reported in, and picked up! No news, fake news, and good news….. 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮 it was an eventful few months learning about and tracking, to almost wits end our groups tried. Thank you to the finders! The survival skills adapted on these steers. Miracle is the name of the other steer.