Industrial action to the national grid

fedupfreda

sb44 wrote: »

Yep, I was a kid then too.

The only thing that I can remember was cooking chestnuts in an old pan on the coal fire! It was quite exciting.

Yep - and remember the mess when they exploded? Ewww!

:rotfl::rotfl:

ceridwen

bluebag wrote: »

Good lord, it's like the clock has turned full circle. When we had new heating put in the engineer wanted to remove my old gas wall heater and was a bit bemused when I said no, he's about to find out why.

Just dragging stuff out of my memory, a freezer is fine for 24 hours if you keep it closed.

Life won't end without electricity for a few hours, but it's annoying. Shops will probably shut for the power down time as the tills won't work without it this time round, neither will the security tags. Should be fun.

ALWAYS a good idea to have some sort of back-up - like dual fuel. If it comes to it - i'll only be cold in the kitchen and bathroom - but I have a very efficient gas fire in the sitting room.

Yet another reason for that Old Style full storecupboard is if the shops can't operate their tills/etc for a while....I'd been holding back on giving that as one of the reasons why I urge people to stay stocked-up...but..yep..its on the list of reasons:)

I'm just taking this as a useful dummy run personally in case foreign hackers launch an Internet attack on our powerstations (articles have been going in the Press for the last few days warning that this is a possibility unless/until those power stations are re-jigged so as not to be reliant on the Internet). I have no great faith that the powers-that-be will have the sense to make sure this is done BEFORE any such attack...:cool:

mrs-stressed

Right then you lot out there. If you could hear yourselves flapping and panicking over something that most likely isnt going to happen. We dont know for sure that is what is to come so we need to just calm down and get real here. Not so funny I know for some people, but really when these things happen we just adapt and get on with our lives as best we can. But to actually fall victim to the press whipping up this unlikely scenario is irresponsible to say the least.

amcluesent

Send in the army! Not to run the powerstations, to make Unite peeps work at gunpoint. Banana republic stylee

NB that generator looks a wise purchase, reckon I could run it on the patio and bring in a wander lead to boost the fridge/feezer and power the microwave for cooking. Gas fire in the lounge, so OK there.

Already have good stocks of paraffin for storm lanterns. Need more dried food in store, even if the lecky is fine the petrol tanker drivers are looking to down tools.

I posted on the Economy forum that events are looking more and more like a return to 1974...

lucylucky

Antispam

Having lived in a previous house in a urban area with frequent power cuts abet only for a very short time, and also a child brought up in the 70's when we had the 3 day week and power cuts, I know how bad things can get.

We rely so much on energy now. I always have a reasonable supply of candles, torches and windup lights to be on safe side. I also have alternative supply for heating. It may be inconvenience though but I will survive

Now on to this, I wouldn't go out now and buy large amounts of candles etc, but I think it always prudent to have some for emergencies

mrs-stressed

lucylucky wrote: »

That is utterly brilliant.

Farway

fedupfreda wrote: »

I shall have to avail myself of the coal fire at the nearest pub then :-)

Me to, at least the beer pumps are handraulic so no leccy required :beer:

Edinburghlass_2

Antispam wrote: »

Having lived in a previous house in a urban area with frequent power cuts abet only for a very short time, and also a child brought up in the 70's when we had the 3 day week and power cuts, I know how bad things can get.

We rely so much on energy now. I always have a reasonable supply of candles, torches and windup lights to be on safe side. I also have alternative supply for heating. It may be inconvenience though but I will survive

Now on to this, I wouldn't go out now and buy large amounts of candles etc, but I think it always prudent to have some for emergencies

Have a similar problem here with power cuts quite frequently but I have added a mobile dongle to my tray of candles so I can use the laptop and access the internet

amcluesent

>Me to, at least the beer pumps are handraulic so no leccy required<

I wouldn't want to leave the house with the looting starting with no street lights or working alarms, plus coppers overwhelmed as their own radios and computers conk out.