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Black outs

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Since we have heard a lot about possible black outs to save electricity. 

Not sure if this will happen. 

But I made a wee list to be helpful of things you might find useful: 

Extra duvet to keep warm. 

Food flask, so you can make some warm food or soup before the actual black out to store for later in the day when electric is out. 

Some lanterns that are batter powered. 

some nice fairy lights battery powered, you can always put one up at the window to help those that are outside in the dark. 

Batteries. 

Some snacks and some food you can prepare cold. 

Keep phones charged and if you can afford to maybe get a DVD player that you can charge so you do not feel so lonely. 

Hope that helps. 

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  • Where I live there are sudden unplanned power cuts numerous times every winter. In fact there was one yesterday. The power went off without warning around 2pm. I started to get more and more concerned when it hadn't come back on after a couple of hours and I was trying to work out what alternatives to cooked food I could find. Thankfully it came back on after around 4 hours.

    My elderly mum is on the priority services register but in reality it doesn't mean much. Those households are not protected from the power cuts but they are supposed to be prioritised for any support on offer. In all the time she has been on that register she has never once been contacted with any offers of assistance during a power cut. During storm Arwen (in November 2021) the power was off for a couple of days and repeated attempts to contact the helpline during that time proved unsuccessful. Some villages were much worse off than we were and didn't get their power restored for a week or more.

    When the power cut is widespread then the mobile network usually goes off as well. That means mobile phones become useless other than as a torch if charged. After storm Arwen the mobile signal in my village wasn't restored for several weeks. The only means of emergency contact is an old fashioned landline phone, not the cordless type as they rely on electricity.

  • in reply to Autonomistic

    Wow, that sounds scary. I really ought to get a non cordless phone just in case.

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