Powercuts

MadGamer · 28-03-2005, 22:54

Just had one and infact the whole of our road went out. My house alarm went off, everything. Little spots in front of my eyes when the lights went off.

paulyoung666 · 28-03-2005, 23:01

extremely weird aint it

, i have only seen 1 powercut here , and then only some houses went out , it depended which phase of the supply you are on

28-03-2005, 23:02

Luckily I have my MagLite near me, always handy to have a torch with you!

paulyoung666 · 28-03-2005, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Luckily I have my MagLite near me, always handy to have a torch with you!

bet you were a scout as well

**Stuart** · 28-03-2005, 23:12

Haven't had a powercut in years. I know where I can get hold of two torches (one of which is charged by vigourous shaking) and a whole bag of candles though, so should be sorted if one occurs.

28-03-2005, 23:16

I've never been in a power cut in my life, would love to be though, sounds quite exciting for some reason.

Marge · 28-03-2005, 23:19

At the risk of sounding a right old biddy I vaguely remember the powercuts in the 70's

paulyoung666 · 28-03-2005, 23:19

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Originally Posted by Diamond

I've never been in a power cut in my life, would love to be though, sounds quite exciting for some reason.

its weird to say the least , you dont appreciate how much you rely on electricity until its not there

kronas · 28-03-2005, 23:21

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Originally Posted by Marge

At the risk of sounding a right old biddy I vaguely remember the powercuts in the 70's

*shows her age

we had a few around here about two years ago, i can remember yorkshire electricity being bought by Npower at that point, im glad they have kept an eye on things ever since

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

its weird to say the least , you dont appreciate how much you rely on electricity until its not there

tell me about it, i had no life for about 4 hours and then a 7 hour outage

ian@huth · 28-03-2005, 23:28

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

its weird to say the least , you dont appreciate how much you rely on electricity until its not there

So true. It's amazing that the first thing many people do when there is a power cut is to decide to have a cuppa, fill the kettle, switch it on and then realise it won't work.

Caspar · 28-03-2005, 23:32

We've got dody electrics...that overheat in the summer!.... see you at Xmas!

...p.s we have gas so no probs have a cuppa!

paulyoung666 · 28-03-2005, 23:32

the only time it happened to me , i was looking after the little one , of course what happened , as soon as the power went out he wanted a warm bottle of milk , no microwave to warm it , no kettle to boil water , so it was a pan of water on the gas hob , good job it was gas though

Millay · 28-03-2005, 23:32

Powercuts since the big sotmrwes reall ydont happen llike they used to, mainly because the network had so much done to it following 87.. Well thats what I reckon and im sticking to it. I hate power cuts, we have one a couple of times a week, when one of my houemates forgetw to put money on the key...

danielf · 28-03-2005, 23:38

We had one the other week. It was a really weird one as well. First, the lights started burning at what seemed a quarter of their normal strength, the tube light in the kitchen wouldn't start, but my internet still worked. After about half an hour, lights went even dimmer, the internet stopped, and half an hour later, we had a complete blackout. Alarms in the street were going off, as they were when power came back on again.

It was eary walking through the house with 60watt bulbs giving the amount of light you'd expect from a 10 watt bulb...

paulyoung666 · 28-03-2005, 23:40

that will have been 'brown outs' before the blackout