Editor:
Just the other day, my 4th grade granddaughter asked me, “Grandpa, when a tree grows up real big and falls and takes out the power lines, why don’t they bury them in the ground?”
I didn’t know what to tell her.
But then today I received in the mail from B.C. Hydro a piece of paper with this on it.
Remember Freda, the typhoon that knocked our lights out.
The storm wasn’t expected to be so powerful but when the “big blow” hit B.C. on October 12, 1962, it packed quite the punch.
Nearly $600 million in damages were caused and some people were without power for a week.
Now I know how to answer my granddaughter.
“Sweetheart, maybe the people in management are not as smart as a 4th grader.”
W. McKinney
Quesnel
