They Called It An Un-Scheduled Power Outage

Our power went off last night at around 7:20 pm and it didn't come back until just after 2:30 pm today. We were without electricity for about 19 hours. I didn't mind the fact that we were without power too much last night but when I woke up and the power was still off this morning I wasn't feeling too good about it.

I had to borrow Mark's portable charger for my phone which had gone completely flat overnight. I was able to go to AP Ausnet which is the company responsible for keeping the power poles, power lines etc up and running. Last night when I had checked it said that the power should be back on by 1:30 am. This morning they had amended it to 1 pm. Which I thought wasn't too bad but when I rechecked it and saw that it was now amended to 5 pm tonight I was beginning to worry.

I have a chest freezer in the laundry which is chock full of food. Not to mention the food in the fridge/freezer. I was concerned that the food would be defrosted and that I would have to cook it all up and some how work out how we were going to afford to replace all if it. When the power came back on I had to check everything. There's a couple of items in the fridge I might throw out just to be on the safe side but the stuff in the freezers seemed okay. The only thing that seemed to have thawed out a bit were the loaves of bread and that was only the first 3 loaves that the top. I am hoping and assuming that the stuff that was lower down in the chest freezer were okay after all even out icy poles (ice-blocks) hadn't melted. So it's all good, right? I hope so any way.

Another reason  I am glad the power is back on is the boys. I couldn't stand their moaning and groaning about being bored. Sheesh. You would think they would find something to do but NO they didn't now that the majority of their items (phones, tablets) had gone flat. My suggestions of cleaning the bathroom and sweeping the floor/carpet went unnoticed. You can't say I didn't try to get them to do something! Me though I was happy sitting on the couch getting some extra crochet time in ☺☺☺

Oh and the cause for the power outage. A tree in a street a block from our place took out a power pole and the power lines attached to it. It explains why it took a lot longer than they initially predicted to get the power back up and running again.

An Evening by Candlelight

We had a little bit of excitement last night. Well maybe not excitement really but it was something different to our usual Monday night routine. We heard a rather BIG bang at around 8:30 ish and the power went out. Normally I wouldn't mind so much but it's the middle of winter (it was VERY cold last night) and even though we have a gas heater is wont work unless the power is on too. I think it's rather silly really but that's how this particular heater works.

Of course Brodie panics when anything out of the ordinary happens. He stresses that we don't have the internet and that he cannot get on to facebook. I swear that kid needs to find something else to do other than sit at the computer all day & night. He ended up going to bed.

I however, I go about the place lighting all the candles that I can find. 

I think I had about 12 going at one stage. 

I thought that it looked a little romantic.

Angus was watching a movie on his netbook. So he was all set. Mark had his tablet and was using that.

I went and got my little book light, grabbed my kindle which had plenty of charge left in it and I sat down in the lounge room and read until the power came back around 10 pm.

It sure was nice having a quiet house. No TV, no server noise, no computers. Perfect for reading!

Back To Basics

The power went out at 1 pm today and finally came back on around 6:30 tonight. You should've seen the boys panic to begin with .."Oh No we have NO power!!", "What do we do now?", "I'm bored".

There was plenty to do if they only thought about it. There were games to play, work to be done like tidying up, reading a book, crafts and other things if they only put their minds to it. I at least got to do some more knitting.

We managed to have dinner by candle light (it's a good thing I always have a supply of candles and matches handy). It was rather nice to eat that way. Good thing we have gas though so we didn't have to have a 'cold' tea.

They said in the news that the cold front was the strongest we've had in about 6 years. The people in the alpine region were to expect more strong winds with speeds up to 150 km/hour. That's like cyclone strength! I don't even want to think how fast that truly is. All I know is that it's much faster than my car can travel!!!