Power Cut Tonight.

[Caran]

I had just started to cook dinner when the power went off.
We sat and waited. Didn't know quite what to do. Phoned various numbers but to no avail.
Discussed going into town for a take away. But decided not to. We didn't know how widespread it was.
Luckily it came back on after just over an hour. Apparently it was pretty widespread. It even mentioned on local news that Forest of Dean had been
Seriously affected with thousands of homes cut off.
Anyway I rescued diinerand we had it albeit a bit later than we thought.
Anyone else affected?

[Mamyalynne]

At least a million affected if not more.

[tonyav]

Wow a million. Haven't had one here ( yet ).

Well at least you managed to rescue dinner, Caran.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025

[Jackdaw33]

Yes. Had one this morning @ 0830 till just after 0900. Apparently it's nation wide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025

[Caran]

So glad we were at home and waiting for a train Mamya.

[Caran]

^^ not ^^

[Baldric]

// Apparently it's nation wide //

Where's it say that then?

[Caran]

It said so on the news tonight.

[Jackdaw33]

Trouble was I thought it was just me, that a bulb had blown, as my computer was still on, not thinking it had automatically switched to battery mode. I fiddled with the trip switches and panicked when nohing happened. I was fretting in case I had left the switches in he wrong position should the power come back on. Fortunately I hadn't.

[Mamyalynne]

It didn't get me, but in the past I always peek out at the houses across to check for lights.

[hc4361]

I have candles and a camping gas stove so that I can at least make a cuppa and soup if we have a power cut.
I used to be a boy scout.

[DTCwordfan]

their population figures were by house counts - probably well in excess of a million homes affected and, consequently, in terms of people, I bet it was >5 million. 45 minutes down, here in the sticks of rural Cornwall, in Truro, all very patchy and between 10 and 30 minutes depending where.

[pastafreak]

Nothing here in Plymouth, though my tv reception was pixilated in the morning. I thought it was due to the winds or something.

[retrocop]

I have a large gas BBQ in the garden, Double camping gas burner and grill, electric griddle, microwave and a 3 gang petrol generator. I have camping gaz lanterns x3 and an oil lamp. I have enough bricks in the garden to make a small Field oven for a long term outage.
My DIL's step father cooks his Xmas Turkey every year in his gas BBQ.
I don't like the smokey flavour he adds to it but ,with a bit of thought and no-how, it is possible to survive and eat hot food and drink without the National Grid.

[retrocop]

Apropos
I didn't need to utilize our get out of gaol cards. We didn't get a sniff of a power outage in London/Surrey.
The lights didn't go out all over this town. :-)

[mushroom25]

life has probably got too clever for its own good. in days of yore the power would go off, be off for a bit, then come back on and everything would get going again. not this time.

when the power went off, the "controlling mind" computer which oversees the newest fleets of trains (about 130 units) went off with it, ad it failed to restart. all the trains were sent an error message which stopped them all; attempts by train staff to reboot them failed. it was discovered that they could only be reset by a visit from a technician with a laptop; this takes time and accounted for the lengthy delays, the effects of which are still being felt now.

[Baldric]

@ 0022, no power cut here Caran

[DTCwordfan]

retro - you should have a 60 year old Aga like the one here...cooking and hot water available.

[retrocop]

DTC. Brilliant. Would love to own one but lack of space. If I were luck enough to own one I would have to learn a whole new concept of cullinary skills. I can make cock ups switching between electricity and gas.