Reevely: 'This was pretty much a worst-case scenario' — inside Hydro Ottawa's brutal weekend

As electricity started flowing into blacked-out neighbourhoods Sunday night, Hydro Ottawa’s brass watched screens in their Merivale Road command centre.
Besides experts monitoring the capital’s power system at workstations, the utility’s functional headquarters has social-media feeds up where everybody can see them. In normal times, when technicians and engineers haven’t spent two days figuring out how to work around a tornado-blasted transmission station to restore power