Preparedness for when

Sunshine4

Thank you Lyn , GQ, Pineapple ,Craigywp, Tori.k.

It was so bad here today and I keep thinking they only came home from the hospital yesterday with the baby and now no power.
It was also a good excuse to see the baby and have a cuddle.
Beautiful little boy.
I asked him had any family called in and he said no, her mum couldnt get over with the snow the roads were to dangerous.
So I will keep an eye on them while the weather is like this, they are only 18 and 19 lovely couple.

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You know the old joke of letters that pass in the post?

Last year we had road closures all over this area as the National Grid was being given a thorough refurbishment and maintenance work went on for months, all the pylons and the cabling were given a thorough sort out

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this evening on the local news they made the announcement that Fawley Coal Fired Power Station was being taken out of commission before the end of the year!!!!!!!!! Guess where the pylon chain starts????? Yep, Fawley!!!!!!! Priceless!!!!!!!!

alltrustgone

pineapple wrote: »

I'm on Freesat from Sky and the only Sky you get is Sky News. Shucks...:(

I'd no idea they were that tight with their content. You'd think they would add something as a loss-leader/marketing ploy to tempt people to subscribe.

Mind you, I think watching Revolution, on top of all the c**p going on in the real world, might lead to unease overload.

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Doesn't that come under the heading 'Don't borrow trouble - it finds you soon enough!!!!!?

Hollyberry

Sunshine4 - what a lovely neighbour you are! :A

maryb

I think the gas situation is more likely to result in power cuts than loss of domestic gas supply. I understand that is the last thing to be cut off because it is so difficult to repressurise the pipes to each household - everything has to be checked for safety before reconnection, it would be a complete nightmare. But a lot of our power stations are gas fuelled so those are the first in line to be shut down.

It sounds quite alarming to say our gas stores will run out in 36 hours but it will only be a problem if the pipelines supplying us from the continent shut down for whatever reason. It's like saying you've run down the savings account but your salary is still covering the bills.

However I have never been very happy with knowing that we are reliant on gas from Europe. Gas from Norway is one thing but gas from Russia via the rest of Western Europe seems to me to be very subject to disruption - especially if Putin gets a bit annoyed with Germany (now why might he do that right now, hmmm......nothing to do with Cyprus, I'm sure)

It is a big investment having a woodburner fitted. I persuaded DH to go along with ours by telling him we would still be warm even if Putin turned off the taps

daz378

day 3 of my annual leave, hard to sleep 16 floors up when the wind is rattling the windows. Bought a groundsheet and 2 packs of glowsticks from wilkinsons(not bought tent yet!) chipping away at the prep. need to buy new stack of batteries for my l.e.d.s as my present stack is at least 2 year old. they have reduced my rent by £7 former heating element could have heat on all day everyday....... then put rent up 3 quid and i now will have to pay heating seperate... cost of living rise again and 3k less a year to meet it:(..... still trying to look on the brightside:)

pineapple

maryb wrote: »

However I have never been very happy with knowing that we are reliant on gas from Europe. Gas from Norway is one thing but gas from Russia via the rest of Western Europe seems to me to be very subject to disruption - especially if Putin gets a bit annoyed with Germany (now why might he do that right now, hmmm......nothing to do with Cyprus, I'm sure)

It's probably a load of old cobblers but a Greek posted on another forum some rumour that Cyprus was a set up, something to do with getting the natural gas and bringing it to Europe through Turkey. I stopped reading when my brain refused to comprehend what was being said :rotfl:. I'll try to find it again.
Just been out with the dog. It's uneffingbelievable on our lane, weird beautiful swirly drifts up to 3 foot high. Up on the road it's a white out - don't think it's seen a snow plough. And some cottages - depending which way they are facing, look like their windows have been sandblasted with snow.

craigywv

morning all up hours ago got up yo visit looand looked outwindow it all so bright and lovely socouldnt go back to sleep . its on news apparently Belfast had a total blackout for between 15 mins -30 mins last night as i well know wandering through the center of town then attempting to drive without traffic lights. sort of scared me and oh we were like limpets attached to each other, made us wonder what it would be like if the shtf big style.................not a comforting thought , sirens, alarms going off it was awfuland if you can understand this we felt small, tiny even looking up at all thedark buildings etc and the sky was white with snow i have never felt so vulnerable in my whole life. putting heat on now and must walk the mutt me thinks dayglo fur parka for him or maybe his black hoody with security wrote on theback lol talk later keep warmmy friends xxx

Popperwell

Glad you are safe now craigywv,
Not a nice experience. It tried to snow all day but here it was just swirling around in the wind.

Some has fallen over night(very wet snow)and as I have to go out tonight and use public transport it will be interesting to see if it improves or becomes worse.

I've said before the evening bus service leaves much to be desired.

5-7 miles from my town the service is better or you can connect to other services that will take to quite a few places even up to midnight but none of them come this way.

So you can reach some locations but if you find a bus that comes my way they only do half a route, terminate and go back to the garage.

Ironically to go back to the garage they have to pass through my town or complete the route they stop half way through so they might as well offer a full journey as there is a bus using fuel, a driver its wasting resources.

The main bus company in my area is also making a big thing over new buses being introduced that use gas not petrol/diesel and lets just say I have heard that they cannot be housed like the usual buses(I forget why)and if they break down the local mechanics cannot repair them and they have call specialists in...

Wouldn't you think those problems would be sorted out first before using them?

And I suppose all fuel can be dangerous if things go wrong but just as well smoking is banned as guess where the gas is stored on the bus?

In the roof:eek: