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Lucky we have a solid fule stove for heat a gas hob for cooking and led touches for lighting so all good.
In the southeast 111 postcodes today had a power cut we are still without, electricity from 13:35 to day the lane is being dug up again.
But what would be your plan 🤔. |
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"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food"
Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷♂️ |
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"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food"
The central heating pump, thermostat, timer and igniter need electricity. Sorry to break it to you  |
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"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food
Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷♂️"
well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie |
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"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food
Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷♂️well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie"
I think I'd go to bed.
When there's a power cut it goes very quiet. You don't realise how much noise all our electrical gadgets make. |
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Im sound.... on a farm, diesel generator just incase, diesel in stores, gas by the bottle, water in stream up the road, Ive got about 3 months off grid before I need to worry and thats without being reserved on usage.
If were talking like shit hit the fan, countries gone down, im sorted there... cant discuss that though haha |
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This happened around this time last year 🤦♀️ as a result I'm stocked up on candles and matches, because sods law says it will also happen when my head torch isn't charged up. Were I not on my own I'm sure I could come up with imaginative ways of staying warm However as a single person blankets and my dressing gown it is! |
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"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food
Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷♂️well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie
I think I'd go to bed.
When there's a power cut it goes very quiet. You don't realise how much noise all our electrical gadgets make. "
Just been woken to the power coming back on some lights that where switched when the power was off a freezer alarm plus the beeps from everything powering back up. |
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Camping power bank and lights. Should give us enough power to last 24 hours or more. Provide enough light to use the kitchen (gas cooker), and charge small devices.
And obviously..... early night 😉 |
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"We could cook and we have solar powered lights and some torches. We'd be very cold though "
If you can cook you can presumably boil water. If you can boil water you can fill hot water bottles up.  |
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By *li LuckWoman 26 weeks ago
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Power cut plan consists of hiding in my mums house cos im all electric but she has a wood burner and lpg gas cooker. Happened last year as was put for a couple of days. Luckily the kid were at their dads and his area wasn't effected.
Spent time drinking and knitting. In the evening and had bacon sarnies for breakfast. Lol |
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We have a log burner and plenty of wood,and a 3.5 kva generator to plug in to if we need,so happy days
And candles somewhere in the cubard,,
My heart goes out to those people in the Ukraine, there power is a target, |
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"I initially thought this thread was about when you die!🤦♀️😏
Would need more than candles & solar panels to keep you ticking over!!"
Oh when you die. Yeah there's an instruction. I don't care what happens except that everyone gets wasted in my local. My mate that runs the local Indian restaurant feeds everyone & Mrs RC is instructed to buy the biggest headstone that money can buy.
Why?
It's my final joke. In 100 years time, some intellectual will make a TV programme about headstones for quest or whatever it'll be then. They'll do a shed load of research to find out why I was so important, just to discover I was just man on the street that loved having a giggle. The final piss take.
I love the idea that 100 years after I'm gone that some chin scratcher will put time into something as pointless as figuring out who I was. |
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We had a 4 day power cut some years ago it was just bloody awful 😖 i was still in my old job so very stressful.
So now I'm more organised have a gas cooker and a burner and always have lots of battery light on the house  |
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"16 solar panels, 27kw of battery storage, 200L of hot water & AI inside the system. Apparently there's been 3 power cuts since we installed it all. We didn't even notice them."
So what was the investment 🤔.
For what 3 power cuts. |
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