in the what 12 years that I've owned this house we've lost power Maybe
three or four times and a lot of it has to do with our location if we look this way you can see it
you know mountains off in the distance there but if you were to stay on those mountains you'd see
the same thing this way I live in a valley and down there is the town and more so over that way
so we never have to deal with like really bad power outages or floods
or anything like that and when we do I only lose power for maybe
two three hours at a time and it's an annoying amount of time and I'll tell you why in a minute
because historically by the time I get the generator out and set up the power
just comes right back on but that wasn't the case this time not at all so some of you guys
know that we were getting a hurricane here in Atlanta Canada I'm in Nova Scotia Truro
specifically uh and hurricane Fiona hit us hired I think it was like a category two
in category two hurricane uh I prepped I got um I filled my bathtub which is like
a Soaker tub so tons of water I can store in there for drinking washing flushing the
toilets that sort of thing uh got gas for the generator uh about eight hours worth
um and you know the basic things cleaned up the yard hatched everything down
Etc and that was like during Friday today as I filmed this is Sunday afternoon it's it's like
two o'clock right now here and the video just went out that was never supposed to be seen for like
two or three weeks it's the renovating the gallery type deal uh I didn't want anybody to see it until
I was like almost done because the end results are are absolutely phenomenally mind-blowing anyways
you guys know I also have Savannah cats they took the plug out of the uh the bathtub so I've
been using 2 000 gallon water to flush the toilet and do Basics uh that sort of thing but I do have
a generator I ran out of gas that night the next no not that night the next morning the generator
wasn't running and that's when we realized the devastation that this hurricane actually had the
entire Province for the most part is out of power my town is completely shut down we're gonna have
to deal with the generator noise right now uh today's Sunday this happened Friday night I've
been without power since then and it probably not gonna have power for another week or two
I'm gonna have to yell but uh
we'll look at a few things the Poland is obviously destroyed and not that destroyed I did put a
tarp over it and it's mostly saved uh these fell over broke that one broke massive tree over here
and there's I mean shingles everything all over the place but this is a big big tree that uh fell
out it just snapped off this tree is healthy or at least it was um it's one of my favorite trees but
then there used to be big trees back here that blocked the the sun if you can see back there
that one's fell over and there's a bunch hauled over through here and one caved in the back of
my uh little My Little Shelter there for uh like yard maintenance stuff and whatnot but
few shingles missing off of the roof I can get up there and fix that um the damage out here may
be about a day or two of you know cleaning up fixing things and that sort of thing oh
gate I just built the gate I just built blown off the hinges uh it's barely hanging there so I
don't know how I'm gonna fix that because all the Metal's broken and and bent and that sort of thing
huh but in comparison to what happened in town and even what happened at the end of the street power
lines down everywhere and trees are through houses trees are falling on people's cars
um and it's everywhere it's not like isolated and you drive along and you see oh no a tree
fell over it's everywhere I've never seen anything like this
um we are very lucky to have uh not damaged the house the gallery is fine and you could hear the
generator that plugs into the to the gallery and then I could turn everything on or just using
the basics the heat pump and aquarium pumps we're not using Wave makers we're not drawing any power
any more power than we need and then I ran an extension cord in the house to uh Power a couple
things like lights and Wi-Fi and that sort of thing um but on Friday we ran out of gas I'm sorry
Saturday morning we had no gas so I had to go to uh to town to try to find gas and that's when I
saw how bad things are you know you're driving over power lines entire poles streets blocked
off by trees and and it's just so devastating I feel so bad for a lot of people in my community
because we I do live in a relatively small town and I believe that it's a beautiful town but what
comes with beauty a lot of times it's beautiful trees and Greenery but all of that is gone now
um I I spent about eight hours trying to find gas I found a gas station open about 35 40 minutes
from me and the lineup was insane uh they ran out of gas hours later but I was able to get about
uh 40 liters of gas and um the generator is not really designed to run 24 7. so I'm running that
on intervals I'll wake up in the morning and start it usually at six seven o'clock in the morning and
I'll run it till about around supper time I'll shut it off for four hours and then start it
back up when it gets dark and then it runs till the morning and you got to keep doing that um
my priority is keeping my family safe clean fed and of course keep all fish alive
and I'm be I'm successful so far again there's no lights on in any of the tanks so but we'll
hopefully be able to see everybody Asian air one is fine Oscar's rays are fine um shoot piranha are
okay everybody's fine now you can't even see under there I was worried about trees coming
through this trees falling on the gallery and I didn't know how bad it was until me and well I
was out here painting I guess I could show you a few things I was out here painting that night
um I got all the walls done here and the ceiling and the floor it I and then I got all in here
painted uh the walls and whatnot and it's just looking beautiful I got under that painted
um repainted the stand but you know at this point all of that has to come to it Halt and I
gotta focus on maintaining the yard and uh getting back to I gotta cut that tree up my chainsaw was
destroyed in the in the tent thing so I gotta find another chainsaw but it's not like anybody has a
spare one they're all using them so I gotta try to buy one but nothing's open and when I do get one
you know there's only a few in stock likely so I I and I and nothing's open right now
so when I go to buy a chainsaw it probably won't be any to buy um I wanted to
um continue to get stuff done out here even though there's no power I mean I got I got to keep going
and keep busy I mean I can't just sit on the couch and twiddle my thumbs I I gotta keep going oh
basketball for those that follow me on Instagram I was making stories all night and joking and
laughing and we were out here painting and Tamara got into her wine and she brought me home with six
pack so we're just enjoying ourselves and then I started hearing the big cracks and smashes and I'm
like that sounds like a treat like right across the street there I don't know if you'll be able
to see it let me adjust this but you see right across the street and you see their line of bushes
there's a massive tree that fell on them down the road is way way worse like buddy down there
was a friend of mine well I want to go help him cut up his trees but uh he's got a big tree uh
resting on top of his Jeep right now and uh other trees resting on his house so that's a priority
um all fish are fine all fish are alive my main worry is power's probably not going to be back
on for a week or two um Nova Scotia Power is estimating it to be on in four days from now
but I can't see that happening it's the the damage is just too extreme and there's too
much I can understand if a few power lines were down but let's it seems like they're all down
and and it's been at least we have some nice weather and the the wind has slowed down so
the power companies can get up there um but yeah I wanted to keep things moving and I was like well
I can deal with no power I'll just go buy some two by fours start building up my walls two by
sixes start building in the Sands things can keep moving I have power out here but uh no nothing's
open and that's fine I just really worry about all the other families that are way worse off than me
um you know I do have friends that know that I have some power and they come over and charge
their devices up have some coffee you know use the bathroom properly um I do have a method to
take showers and stuff but you got to be maybe every couple of days take a shower
because there's not much fresh water um but yeah how am I going to survive I'm not going to feed
the fish the entire time the power's out they'll they'll be fine without eating for at least a week
um and since the power has to shut off for around eight hours a day I don't need whatever goes in
must come out so if I'm adding food to the tanks they're just going to create waste and pollute
the tanks um I do have a fridge here so the house has no power I'm just an extension cord I do have
a fridge here uh and freezer so we took everything that was in the fridge and freezer and put it in
here we were actually uh we just finished emptying the Deep Freeze like eating everything in there
because if you have a deep freezer that's where you like you try to buy in bulk to save money and
um we just finished eating all of that because a lot of it was like two and three years old
we ate it anyway um so we'd never had too much to freeze and the fridge stuff I mean
mostly condiments milk and that sort of thing is in there now but uh I hold all the cards now
because the gallery is responsible for keeping the food and having Wi-Fi empowering everything
so the gallery is a pretty popular place right now for the first time ever oh man but yeah so this
is what it looks like every day um I just opened the blinds let it naturally light it while I get
a few things done at night time I'll turn the lights on but I'm trying to use as little power
as possible to keep the generator going going and not working that hard but it is like a nine nine
or ten thousand watt generator that just plugs right into this building I'll show you what I do
yeah excuse my paint job my God I hate painting this is why
um there's a plug outside that the generator plugs into directly and when I'm not using it
this is all over there but when I want to switch this power to the generator I flip it all over
and the generator Begins the power I turned off um
yeah I don't need that off um the heat pump is on what is off the water heater I don't
need the water heater in here because the house feeds that water heater and right now
the house doesn't have power so there's no point in having that heater on which
is like a 3000 watt heat or continuously heating but everything else is on for now
yeah I got off Lucky in terms of damage to the property no fish are harmed
but there's a lot of damage outside oh I didn't see that but
lovely um
yeah the focus is just keeping the fish alive with bare minimum um and uh
keep the family safe clean and fed that's it uh I won't probably be able to make many videos for a
little bit that's fine I'll probably be able to show you some things I'm working on I guess but
um I had to I didn't want anybody to know about this because the downstairs is going
to be insane when it's done you guys know about it now and you kind of have an idea
what I'm doing but you have no idea the end result I'm not saying that members only know
um but uh out here so the downstairs is going to be one
I'm building a speakeasy down there but the entire basement is going to be mind-blowing
and I don't even know if it would be considered a speakeasy just a place to sit chill maybe the
podcast will be there maybe not but I am working on a new series where I'm going to
be building things on that 10 foot long table it's going to be absolutely phenomenal down
there the main Gallery I want to turn it back into a gallery where you can sit and look and
things are clear but this is the only space I've had for the last five years and you know doing
projects and everything and moving things and do and trying to to still make videos for you
guys and then it just gets really hard to do it in one space and I was never really I knew that
the gallery lost sight a couple years ago um you know trying to do trying to move forward
and change things I knew the public aquarium so I was slowly going to transition to that that
didn't happen and then I'm screwed out here and I got all these 180s and the 120 racks are taken
down and all these other things have already happened to kind of prepare for the next step
I made a video about two years ago announcing the public aquarium Gallery but I never put it up
um just because at that time I was going through some things I didn't want real anybody to really
know my next move but but the gallery is going to turn into a gallery a place for me the downstairs
is going to turn into a place it'll be functional but it's also going to be like for the average
person to see it and be like wow this is what you can do in your house with with fish tanks and I
want it to be mind-blowing that way the gallery of course same idea but I really want it to be
a place where I can enjoy and do like personal projects the aquaponics system I'm really excited
about I want to grow some lettuce and tomatoes and that sort of thing in the 375 on top of it build
up those walls I don't but then the new building's coming and that's where you guys will be probably
most excited about because we're gonna put 120 aquariums in there fully automated for the most
part and uh do a lot of breeding and a lot of cool things out there but that will mostly be
like do-it-yourself stuff obviously everything's do-it-yourself I mean I'm the one filming I'm
the one editing I'm the one coming up with the ideas I'm the one doing all the Hands-On stuff
all alone besides having to move a big tank but I build and do everything alone um but yeah okay
the hurricane hit Atlanta Canada
the aquarium Gallery hit everything but I'm okay for the most part an incredibly blessed
because things could have been way worse anyways that's it for today
it's really hard to I began close oh Tony the the longhorn Cowfish in the house
I could power his tank but the house getting cold um and the uh
it needs a heater it has a heater and filter it takes about 300 watts to
run that tank and I didn't want to use 300 watts so I brought him in here he's
in there with the shrimp the the seahorses everybody's actually there he is right here
everybody's fine but I figured why not bring him out here I did that last night
instead of trying to run extra extra tanks so I was still kind of consolidating things
he's here now I got to build the other stand to hold the other 70. but this is
this is where this one's probably going to be I gotta wrap it still and finish things
but there's Tamara's bamboo plant that lasted and survived kind of but um yeah
I I wish I guess I would have been more prepared but you never can be prepared
enough especially when historically things like this don't happen that's one of the benefits of
Canada is we don't have really earthquakes or hurricanes or anything bad we just have
extreme weather in terms of like we'll have all four seasons and they're all pronounced like we
can't have a hot summer we do have a heavy winter and we're for the most part prepared for that and
obviously a lot of the times just make sure you have winter tires and that's kind of how
you prepare for winter around here but because we're so used to it um what else is I gonna say
but yeah never really prepare for this type of thing and it's devastating so I'm going to finish
making this video I'm free I feel like I had more to talk about so just if you have any questions
put them in the um comment section below or any anything any advice anything like that um
but yeah bottom line Everybody's Fine everybody's safe everybody's gonna be
okay I just don't think I'm gonna get power on Thursday right now Sunday the Nova Scotia
Power saying we're going to have it by Thursday night at 11 p.m and I can't see that happening
um yesterday they said it was going to be by Wednesday and it just keeps pushing back a
day and another day and another day so and and there's like power lines still on the ground
like they haven't even come close to coming up here yet so I guess today the goal today is
try to find a chainsaw and try to salvage as much as I can outside and
that sort of thing I guess the basketball net is bent but it's not broken but that's what I
was doing on Instagram like trying to make light of a bad situation um I thought it was just gonna
be high winds and some water and you know rain and but nope nope as soon as I heard the cracking and
the Smashing I was like uh-oh because we have some really tall trees out there look at this
what if you see this big tree right here look I can't even see the top of it there
it is what if this tree came this way like fell towards me it's long enough to hit the gallery
um those maple trees aren't that bad but if like I said if you could see this this
big this was a massive tree and it was one of Tamara's favorite because it went up in
the middle of those two and it would block the sun in the afternoon so she could have
some shade but that's gone now I always hated it and I wanted to uh you know trim it so we do
so we could have more sun longer but yeah what a mess this is hope you guys enjoyed the video
there's nothing to enjoy I should have said that but I'll see you guys soon wish me luck