Are They Readying Us?

[OnOff]

Am I reading too much into this? Just recently been having regular power dips in the remote rural valley where I live and in the adjacent larger village a couple of miles away atop the hill. Almost g'teed each evening there'll be such a "flicker". All the neighbours noticing the same thing too. Power dip that might just be enough to mess the bedside and microwave clocks up etc. In the local Co-op the other week (again a couple of miles away) and same thing took the tills down. 

Weird how the power companies have been threatening such and this happens so quick after!

 

[M107]

We've had power cuts during daylight hours recently, pain in the backside getting home & everything needs resetting.

 

[Blue Duck]

Had our first power cut in many many many years the other night 1:07am substation fault apparently? Also get the occasional dip just enough for the tv to go off then on to standby So there may be some truth to it?

Also Mrs Duck keeps nagging me to go Ikea and pick up a bag of tea lights "just in case".

 

[OnOff]

Good. Not just me then. Better dig the Makro special gennie out!

Had our first power cut in many many many years the other night 1:07am substation fault apparently? Also get the occasional dip just enough for the tv to go off then on to standby So there may be some truth to it?

Also Mrs Duck keeps nagging me to go Ikea and pick up a bag of tea lights "just in case".

Don't forget the flower pots!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10449357/Heat-your-home-office-for-8p-a-day.html

 

[Blue Duck]

Ha Ha

Couldn't use ikea pots they would probably melt :facepalm:

 

[Evans Electric]

Power dips in rural areas eh !      Could be one of three things :-

1)    Badger testing his Christmas light show again. 

2)    Steptoe keying the mike as he calls the Mother Ship . 

3) Close encounters of the second kind. 

 

[OnOff]

Power dips in rural areas eh !      Could be one of three things :-

1)    Badger testing his Christmas light show again. 

2)    Steptoe keying the mike as he calls the Mother Ship . 

3) Close encounters of the second kind. 

I know we're rural and everything comes in overhead but go back 25 years & we'd get "proper" power cuts! It'd go OFF and stay off. Everyone would rally round and we'd be running "double plug specials" to to the elderly neighbours off of gennies etc. Christmas dinner done on a wood burner one year, small gennie just to run the CH pump, lights and a 14" portable. I think just over a week was the longest. This latest stuff just smacks of scare tactics. 

 

[ProDave]

Power dips in rural areas eh !      Could be one of three things :-

1)    Badger testing his Christmas light show again. 

2)    Steptoe testing his automated mangle contraption thingy.. 

3) Close encounters of the second kind. 

I've corrected that.