Preparedness for when

bluebag

mardatha wrote: »

Shortbird, we get powercuts all the time. High winds, rain, snow, or a coo scratching her back end on a post.. it goes off. You tend to forget what was on and what wasn't on, and you always always switch lights and appliances on before you remember not to We do unplug everything now, even the router because that has a hissy fit when the power goes back on..

I remember you talking some about it last year, wondering how long you would able to post before it went !!!!!!.

I know you have no choice in the matter, but heck it must get on your nerves at times.

I haven't witnessed a blackout for 30 odd years apart from the odd few hours when some workman does something stupid with a digger.

mardatha

It's kind of exciting, I like it. I wud get bored as hell in a spotless clean all -electric flat with manicured gardens. LOL @ your workmen

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armyknife wrote: »

Is this stuff stored in a garage or shed

Suffice to say, the storage location is constructed of brick, and is windowless.

thenanny2die4

THIRZAH wrote: »

Cooking by candlelight was a bit of a challenge too.

I honestly don't know if they still have them but we bought a couple of little LED lights from Ikea two or three years back. They're a couple of inches square and about half an inch deep. You fix them to a wall or whatever and they have a motion sensor on them. We have them in our understairs cupboard and they're brilliant.

When we had a longish power cut and I needed to get a meal sorted in the dark, we just took them out of the cupboard and put them in the kitchen for the duration. There was enough light to prepare food and, because of the sensors, they were only using the batteries when I was in the kitchen, so fab for power saving.

armyknife

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Suffice to say, the storage location is constructed of brick, and is windowless.

That doesn't answer my question about if there stored in a main building.

Are they in a residential building, somewhere your or other live, somewhere where fire-fighters might risk their lives in an effort to save others?

homesteadchick

pineapple wrote: »

perhaps I shouldn't have threatened to eat said rabbit if it got into my garden again .

LOL!!
I'm SO glad to see I'm not the only person who has ever done that!

ahahaaahahahaa!! They don't take kindly to that sort of thing mostly, but it's usually effective!

:rotfl:

paidinchickens

mardatha wrote: »

If power goes off then everything goes off. Traffic lights, cash machines, shop tills, automatic doors, burglar alarms (oh how they go off! ) - and the worst thing for us is that you tend to forget and switch things on before you realise...so that if it comes back on in the middle of the night, radios, tvs, lights, microwaves and toasters all spring into action and you get heart failure!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

vanoonoo

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Suffice to say, the storage location is constructed of brick, and is windowless.

plenty of ventilation I tho I hope

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vanoonoo wrote: »

plenty of ventilation I tho I hope

Yes, though I don't see why that would matter.

westcoastscot

We have plenty power cuts too, routinely 24 hours, occasionally 6 - 8 hours, and one last year of 5 days. You just get used to it - we have the stove, dutch oven, candles and the scrabble board! We just remember to keep the car filled with petrol to allow us to get to work (if the roads are passable) and we pretty much go on as before. We also routinely have flooded roads, the rest and be thankful land-slipping (road closed again last week) and general issues to get to the bigger shops, or to get our wee shops supplied, so we keep a fair store anyway. I don't think anyone needs to panic - just be sensible, keep warm, fed and hydrated and you'll be fine. Remember in the 60's 70's when I grew up we didn't have central heating, double glazing etc and most of us thrived.

WCS