11 Hour Power Cut

sherrardk | 18:27 Mon 11th Dec 2017 | ChatterBank

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Flipping electric went off last night just before 9.30 and didn't come back on until gone 8 this morning. After the first flurry of excitement at trying to find candles and playing trivia pursuit it all wore a bit thin. Had to go out in the 6" of snow to find an Internet connection to report it and then to find out when they expected it to be fixed. The youngest three weren't keen on going to bed without lights (couldn't give them candles obviously). House was freezing this morning. On the plus side, it's another snow day tomorrow, himself got the car out of the village and can collect the food shopping from Asda tomorrow (can't see them delivering to the village yet) and the sun melted enough snow on the satellite dish to enable Sky to work.

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murraymints

oh dear..not a lot you can do, makes for a very miserable time..hope all is well now xx

kvalidir

Ours has just come back on having gone off last night, which is good because originally they were suggesting it'd be tomorrow, but quite liked cooking on the open the fire and candles and managed to get to Leominster today, couldn't get up the lanes yesterday, so happy to enjoy the snow now :)

murraymints

ours goes... everything goes... heat too.. Hail Mary....just in case ..

sherrardk

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All's well now - it was only a tiny section of the village but quite unexpected as we're not exactly in the wilds (I imagine kvalidir lives completely in the sticks). No open fires here so I was concerned about keeping the kids warm although we were hardly at risk of hypothermia.

murraymints

must be hard keeping kids settled through it all..everything crossed for you that it doesn't recur !

sherrardk

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Fingers crossed minty, we're just not equipped for anything out of the normal - don't really expect the power to go off for so long.

kvalidir

Yes we live in the back end of nowhere and thankfully have open fires so we can keep warm and cook, but must've been horrificly cold without :( Shame it didn't tickle over the 12 hours you can claim compensation then as well x

Islay

like Kval we cook on the open fire when we have a power cut.
Could you not get a mini gas hob like the camping ones for emergencies and some of those battery latterns.

sherrardk

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We could have put the gas cooker on for a bit of heat but we all just went to bed early. I will invest in a wind-up torch and put it somewhere handy (the only I could find was a Lego torch with flat batteries). You don't realise how much you rely on mains electric/gas and you don't expect to be without it for so long when you don't live in the sticks.

Islay

Absolutely Sherr I hope that it doesn't happen again but its best to be prepared.
Good luck xx