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RobN
  • RobN
  • Advanced Member
28 November 2021 20:19:44

I think COVID news is masking the fact that thousands in several different regions are without power for a 3rd night in a cold spell! Imagine if that was happening in London!

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 


On the BBC website national news the severe weather situation report is tempered with "delight"


Snow brings disruption - and delight


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-59452499


You have to go to the regional pages to get closer the real picture


Storm Arwen: Thousands across England remain without power


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-59450984


 


Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.
Viking3
29 November 2021 04:11:18
Power just back on here in Aboyne after nearly 60 hours!

Pretty miserable with even our modern house like an icebox now, as snow has lain since Friday night.

Life just ground to a halt - no mobile phones nor landlines, no heating - nothing. Local shops including the Co-op supermarket were closed so no way to top up dwindling food supplies - we are sick of cold sandwiches! And of course all the food in the freezer has defrosted and will have to be discarded.

At least I could keep the beers cold out the back door in the snow....
Keith
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
135m asl
Bagfish
30 November 2021 22:35:46
Power went off again in many places around Kendal in South Lakes this afternoon and is not expected to be back until 4pm Thursday. It looks like there has been a major failure somewhere. Some people only had their power restored yesterday evening. Its getting really serious and possibly life threatening for so many people.

As Crepuscular Ray says, imagine if this was happening in London, COBRA would be meeting it would be headline news and the army would be brought in.
Near Kendal, Cumbria
Home 180m asl
Weather Station 
Gandalf The White
30 November 2021 23:30:59

Power went off again in many places around Kendal in South Lakes this afternoon and is not expected to be back until 4pm Thursday. It looks like there has been a major failure somewhere. Some people only had their power restored yesterday evening. Its getting really serious and possibly life threatening for so many people.

As Crepuscular Ray says, imagine if this was happening in London, COBRA would be meeting it would be headline news and the army would be brought in.

Originally Posted by: Bagfish 


Hi Kate


 


That’s not good. I hope you and your neighbours can cope.


There was a news item about people in Aberdeenshire being without power for, I think, 5 days now - but no mention of continuing issues elsewhere.


We had a power outage for 9 hours last Monday and that was a nightmare, with no heating and no means of making a hot drink. Apparently we’d been running off a stand-by generator because they had been replacing some power lines and it failed; twice.  But that was only 9 hours; I can’t imagine being without for days.


 


Location: South Cambridgeshire
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E


DEW
  • DEW
  • Advanced Member
01 December 2021 07:13:20

For comparison, in Oct 1987 after the Great Storm, in mid-Kent (only 50 miles from Westminster) we were without water for 2 days and without power for 4. But that was much more easily survivable because it was mild - it must be really grim with temps below freezing. I don't remember COBRA meetings but of course we couldn't receive TV and radio, battery-operated systems being much less common then. 


Moral is that even UK weather can be violent and with a widespread emergency like Arwen and the Great Storm, you need to count on being self-sufficient for 4 or 5 days. There's just too much to do for instant restoration of services to everyone.


(incidentally, we also had a tree on top of the house, both my wrists in plaster after M/C accident, and Rhoda with an eyepatch after an operation - things go in threes, they say)


War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell

Chichester 12m asl
Ally Pally Snowman
01 December 2021 07:45:41

I grew up in West Sussex and was 8 in 1987 and after the Hurricane we didn't have power for a week. As an 8 year old boy it was quite exciting but I remember my parents being thoroughly pi#sed off by the end. 


Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Bagfish
03 December 2021 21:28:31


 


Hi Kate


 


That’s not good. I hope you and your neighbours can cope.


There was a news item about people in Aberdeenshire being without power for, I think, 5 days now - but no mention of continuing issues elsewhere.


We had a power outage for 9 hours last Monday and that was a nightmare, with no heating and no means of making a hot drink. Apparently we’d been running off a stand-by generator because they had been replacing some power lines and it failed; twice.  But that was only 9 hours; I can’t imagine being without for days.


 


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


 


Friends of mine near Kendal are still without power for the 8th night. They are pretty self sufficient and have a generator and solar panels, but the genny won't run the cooker or the air source heat pump, so they are getting pretty desperate. They have three small sons at home too as the primary school is shut because it also has no power.


 


Meanwhile we have had intermittent power cuts and surges which appears to have b*ggered our air source heat pump. So the house is absolutely freezing. 


Near Kendal, Cumbria
Home 180m asl
Weather Station 
Gandalf The White
03 December 2021 21:46:34


 


 


Friends of mine near Kendal are still without power for the 8th night. They are pretty self sufficient and have a generator and solar panels, but the genny won't run the cooker or the air source heat pump, so they are getting pretty desperate. They have three small sons at home too as the primary school is shut because it also has no power.


 


Meanwhile we have had intermittent power cuts and surges which appears to have b*ggered our air source heat pump. So the house is absolutely freezing. 


Originally Posted by: Bagfish 



That’s dreadful.  I hope you can get it fixed quickly - and then make a claim on the power company.  I know it’s difficult for them when masses of poles and lines are down but an unreliable power supply is woeful.  As for a week without any power; that is beyond awful.


 


Location: South Cambridgeshire
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E


Brian Gaze
03 December 2021 22:09:39


 



That’s dreadful.  I hope you can get it fixed quickly - and then make a claim on the power company.  I know it’s difficult for them when masses of poles and lines are down but an unreliable power supply is woeful.  As for a week without any power; that is beyond awful.


 


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


There was a report on LBC this morning saying they hope to reconnect everyone by Christmas. I was astonished TBH.


Brian Gaze
Berkhamsted
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Bugglesgate
03 December 2021 22:30:37


 


There was a report on LBC this morning saying they hope to reconnect everyone by Christmas. I was astonished TBH.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


 


I'm not.  Rural wooded areas with poles are a total nightmare, you can lose literally miles of overheads and you have to clear all the fallen trees before you can start repairing the lines. .... or even get to them !!


Not a good advert for the "great electrical future" that was being touted at COP a  couple of weeks ago. 


 


Chris (It,its)
Between Newbury and Basingstoke
"When they are giving you their all, some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy banging your heart against some mad buggers wall"
doctormog
11 December 2021 14:44:08
I’ve just been to the local Forestry Commission forest to collect a Christmas tree and the number of large trees felled by the wind is sobering and rather sad.

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