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I lived for 12 years in a wooden caravan(trailer) on a small piece of land, no mains electric, no mains anything, cooked over a camp fire, washed and drank from the river and grew my own veg and fruit.....and loved every minute of it.
wife lived the first 11 years of her life in an off grid cottage.
so power going off wouldn't be a problem for us, more like going back to a previous time in our lives, but most people in the UK have never lived without power and without main services and would be helpless and confused if and when these things ceased to function. even for a short period as recent events have shown.
 
being without power sucks,,,a number of year's ago we had a ice storm,the phones,power and internet were down thousands of power poles were down,,the roads were terrible we were stranded at the house for almost 2 weeks,I heat with wood and was able to also cook on top of the old stove,I was lucky the phone was back in 2 or 3 days and the power was only out for 6 days,I found out there were people without power near me for a full month,it was brutally cold I don't know how some of them survived,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I have grown soft and hope it never happens again
My longest was an ice storm, 11 days without power. Went thru hurricanes in fla. but never more than 6 days. I think I'd reather deal with the cold during it as no ac in Fla. was brutal. I can stay toasty with a wood fire, cook and even heat water to bathe. One thing we are doing right now is having an underground line put in to provide power. It will be connected directly to the main line servicing the area, so I know that line will be a priority to get up and running. Right now our power comes from a neighbors transformer. They have scrub pines everywhere that are taking out the line at least once a year. I wouldn't just do this for temporary power loss, but we had to bring in a line for the new building, and putting the house on it too was realitively cheap. Any way I feel pretty good about it, just as winter is coming.
 
I had another load of firewood hauled in for my mom and checked out all of our flashlights, just in case, since ice on the lines, or limbs breaking and falling on them, might make the lights go out here if a winter storm comes through. Checking our propane supply, as well.
 
WE currently are on watch for Storm Barbara currently barreling its way towards Northern England and Scotland bringing with it 90MPH winds and torrential rain so warning about floods, power cuts, cancelled flights and ferrys and blown over trucks are being issued from tonight up to Xmas day.
 
WE currently are on watch for Storm Barbara currently barreling its way towards Northern England and Scotland bringing with it 90MPH winds and torrential rain so warning about floods, power cuts, cancelled flights and ferrys and blown over trucks are being issued from tonight up to Xmas day.
Glad your a prepper....
 
this came out,in 2012..but it's still a good read..

10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse

(NaturalNews) In the wake of violent storms, the power went out for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio declared a state of emergency. Over twenty people were confirmed dead, and millions sweltered in blistering temperatures while having no air conditioning or refrigeration. As their frozen foods melted into processed goo, some were waking up to a few lessons that we would all be wise to remember.

Here are 10 hard lessons we're all learning (or re-learning, as the case may be) from this situation:

http://www.naturalnews.com/036406_power_grid_failure_lessons.html
 
Three days ago the whole county where I live, was with out electricity for 3 hours because of severe thunderstorms. Granted thee hours is not a long time. what theproblem was all the weather stations including noaa, didn not see this coming. the stormwas so bad it wiped out electricity in 4 counties. I had my flash light and weather walkie talkie i keep with , so when the lights went off at work I had a flashlight. but unfortunatly nooaa radio hadnt changed the weather report from 106 degree to a thunderstorm watch so nobody was ready for it. so i do hve a backup plan in case we loose electricity during winter but not summer. So my wife and I are looking into a generator.
 
Three days ago the whole county where I live, was with out electricity for 3 hours because of severe thunderstorms. Granted thee hours is not a long time. what theproblem was all the weather stations including noaa, didn not see this coming. the stormwas so bad it wiped out electricity in 4 counties. I had my flash light and weather walkie talkie i keep with , so when the lights went off at work I had a flashlight. but unfortunatly nooaa radio hadnt changed the weather report from 106 degree to a thunderstorm watch so nobody was ready for it. so i do hve a backup plan in case we loose electricity during winter but not summer. So my wife and I are looking into a generator.
In the summer in fla A/C is pretty important. During a several day outage from one of the hurricanes I quickly learned sleeping while sweating wasn't fun. I had a small generator, but it couldn't run the whole house by a long stretch. I ended up buying a small window a/c unit and cooled just the master bedroom. It was a big relief. The moral is you don't need a whole house unit that costs thousands. You just need to prioritize what you really need to run.
Another issue is fuel. I can't stress enough to use propane. Gasoline has some major disadvantages. First, during power outages, you can't get it out of the ground. Second, with seldomly run engines it fouls up carbeurators. Another problem is quantity of fuel. You can get 500 gallons of propane which will last a good while. The comparable amount of gasoline would be hard to store and has a short shelf life. Just throwing a few things to think about before making a decision here.
 
yeah.it was for you robin..2 things that id do.1st,is what your brother did when it comes to the instructions.and thats to learn what i can,on how and proper way to start it and all..2nd thing id do.is to actually set it up,and start it up..just to take things 1 step further at learning about it.and all.on account.to me,that alone could mean the difference of having a back up generator or not.yes,it means useing a lil bit of propane for that.but at least id know if all is right or not.
 
yeah.it was for you robin..2 things that id do.1st,is what your brother did when it comes to the instructions.and thats to learn what i can,on how and proper way to start it and all..2nd thing id do.is to actually set it up,and start it up..just to take things 1 step further at learning about it.and all.on account.to me,that alone could mean the difference of having a back up generator or not.yes,it means useing a lil bit of propane for that.but at least id know if all is right or not.
Jim, I really should. I have it on my list. Lol
 
If that question was for me Jim, the answer is no. Luckily, I haven't had a reason. My brother went over all of the instructions with meach though
Even with a new generator you'll want to run it for a few hours under a load before you need to depend on it. Ideally a generator runs best with an 80% load.
 
I worked today at the grocery store. At the noon broadcast of the news it said that the TROPICAL storm was going to affect us in one way or another. Coming back from a break I noticed the long lines.. . talked to a neighbor who said she didn't have any bottled water at the house. My thinking was then why not fill up some jugs?? Amazing just how many are not prepared for even a couple days. Hunny did text me to bring something home. . stamps
 

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