5 hrs. to kill on cold Sunday evening

[hebe]

Dinner and a movie might burn through that 5 hours.

But given that it is during a portion of the day when you are probably getting ready for the work week and you have no place else to go, in my opinion, this is a significant inconvenience. I would ask the landlord/property manager to put you up in a hotel. But then again, I've been accused of being a pushy American so maybe things are different in Alberta.

Years ago when we lived in an apartment and our water heater broke down for 3 days, our landlord offered to put us up in a hotel. But that was in California, where we had pretty good tenants rights advocates and our landlord/management company was quite good in general.

I'd be asking for this too. I'd be really surprised if health & safety legislation would look kindly on this, especially the bit about the security system possibly not working reliably. I have a background in disaster recovery and I would be very worried about security of the building and the potential risk in the event of fire or emergency. It's kind of different if it's completely unexpected, but as a planned outage I would honestly expect them to make some gesture towards hugely inconvenienced residents. I'm quite shocked to read that they won't, and I would be asking anyway (as a pushy Brit!) Presumably you pay maintenance charges of some sort?

Other than that, I suppose a meal and movie, and invoicing receipts.

[shootingstar]

Har, har, crazycanuck..Fort McMurray, land of wonderful air quality and inspiring stuff: oil tar sands and oil refining industries where temp. are even colder, 'cause it's several hundred kms. north of Edmonton. I'm south of Edmonton, for those unfamiliar with our terrain.

A place that lacks infrastructure because it's boom-bust-boom town.

I just hope to get better. I feel off and on edge of a cold. I agree hebe, no interest in wanting to feel trapped in a highrise building when the elevator won't be working.

[PamNY]

Ah, a cyclist isn't trapped. You should be better able to climb stairs than everyone else!

[malkin]

Bookstore and then pub.
If there's no one interesting at the pub, you can read whatever you got at the store.