One of the reasons why we have gas lamps and a small gas camping stove. I think the battery back up for the Internet will last about +24 hours if used continuously. We did test it a few months ago and it worked okay for the day.
Yes we do similar. Have two portable camping stoves plus a gas cooker. If the cut was long like our sons we could always fall back on candles. Our lounge fire is battery ignition too. We always have long date food stuffs in the cupboards as my wife still thinks we will be under four minute warning! Way things look at times she could be right.
It never fails to amaze me how many people are not ready for utility failures.
When you live in remote-ish areas, with frequent failures, you kit your home with emergency items, food, water etc.
I live in Woburn Sands, in Bucks, maybe two power outages a year for say 2 hours. But we still keep Water, Portable gas ring, and candles for when the rechargeable or battery powered light fail.
But it seems common sense, was not issued to a lot of people.
When you live in remote-ish areas, with frequent failures, you kit your home with emergency items, food, water etc.
I live in Woburn Sands, in Bucks, maybe two power outages a year for say 2 hours. But we still keep Water, Portable gas ring, and candles for when the rechargeable or battery powered light fail.
But it seems common sense, was not issued to a lot of people.
My ultimate cooking fall back is always the Cadac with its 6kg cylinder plus spare, and if all else fails a Dankook charcoal bbq.
I was driving out on Friday to meet friends for Lunch, and being in a fairly rural area, I couldn't help but notice the number of very large old trees overhanging the roads. I started to wonder who's responsible for these trees, ? Some are growing on the inside of a Farmers field others are on the road side of the Farmers field. I haven't been out today yet but I am sure Darragh has expelled his anger on some of these trees.
If its on farmers land it is the farmers responsibility. Going north on the Fosse beyond Moreton in Marsh there is a nice straight section of road, good for overtaking, and the local authorities have chopped down mature trees on both sides of the road. It was done on safety grounds. Similar to around here on the A420 into Bristol. I recall a particularly nasty fatality in the news where a tree had crashed down and the investigation revealed that the land owner had a maintenance plan that included qualified tree surgeons to examine the trees adjoining the road sides, and the examination schedule was up to date. Cannot imagine all councils do that.
I think many people have no idea of the meaning of being self sufficient and simply rely on the government to bail them out!
We also do have a small gas BBQ that uses those camping gaz cylinders plus a big bag of charcoal if we need to use the Weber.
Our plan B is sitting on the drive - caravan with plenty of LPG and a fully charged battery!
To answer thread title.
When gust of wind hits car from behind and blows towing mirror off. Wind loading on towing mirror force car mirror forward then towing mirror fell off and van ran over it.
Car mirror was OK designed to be handled being knocked forward by pedistrations, garage entrances.
Towing over hill at 30-60kmh. Hate to think what would've happen if it was side on gust.
When gust of wind hits car from behind and blows towing mirror off. Wind loading on towing mirror force car mirror forward then towing mirror fell off and van ran over it.
Car mirror was OK designed to be handled being knocked forward by pedistrations, garage entrances.
Towing over hill at 30-60kmh. Hate to think what would've happen if it was side on gust.
At our son’s village in south Wales power is now estimated to be restored by 1800h tomorrow Monday. That a total power loss from 0900 Saturday to 1800 Monday.
Methinks as a nation our performance in the face of extreme weather events needs to improve markedly.
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Some weather events prevent the emergency crews getting to where they're needed or prevent them going aloft until the weather dies down.
The electric linesmen do a fantastic job in adverse conditions but should our network infrastructure be so susceptible to high winds is my point.
I think like a lot of other utility suppliers, the shareholders want their payouts before the infrastructures get updated.
Can they justify the increased energy costs to pay the high cost of putting overhead cables underground?
A new 120 housing estate near myself has removed overhead power lines,and pylons, to go underground, for about 1.5 miles, just so they can put the houses in. So it can be done if they want too.
In north North Norfolk the connection to a new wind farm is going 30 miles underground, as did the connection from Llyn Brianne hydro station. Both are in areas of special beauty but these are niche connections not the extreme high cost associated with widespread burial.
Lime Down Solar Farm is proposed as being built on land near Malmesbury in North Wiltshire. The electricity generated by the proposed solar park would be exported via an underground cable connection into the existing national electricity transmission system at Melksham substation. Some 18 miles.
Whilst pylons are approximately 20% the cost of underground per mile thank goodness some people still appreciate the importance of avoiding the blot on the landscape 👏
Whilst pylons are approximately 20% the cost of underground per mile thank goodness some people still appreciate the importance of avoiding the blot on the landscape 👏
The blot on the landscape is being replaced with wind farms so either way we still lose!
There hasn’t been an onshore wind farm in England for over 10 years. When we lived in Cumbria in the mid 1990s there was one on Kirby Moor which could be seen from our house and the pub garden. Did it detract from our lives…..not one iota. People forget that wind farms have a finite life and remediating the site is relatively easy compared to the difficulty of remediating coal tips, old power stations and oil refineries.The blot on the landscape is being replaced with wind farms so either way we still lose!
I never mentioned wind farm as plenty of stand alone ones still being erected! They are still a blot on the landscape whichever way you look at it!
Apologies but they are still a BLOT on the landscape with more planned!
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