[Closed] Are you ready for the coming winter power cuts?

I'm an STWer, therefore have a wood burner...

I'll live. I can heat, cook and hot water if I need to without electricity. I can use the wife and boy for entertainment and MTB to the Supermarket.

Sounds OK to me 🙂

Your supermarket; the one with the electricly operated automatic doors, and the electronic tills, reliant on electronic stock control and logistics systems to deliver those foods and products produced with the aid of electricity...

Your supermarket; the one with the electricly operated automatic doors, and the electronic tills, reliant on electronic stock control and logistics systems to deliver those foods and products produced with the aid of electricity...

We have a farm shop, plus my mate is a gamekeeper, I wont starve.

Hopefully!! loved power cuts when I was growing up candles and all that, all huddled together in the one room talking, like indoor camping!!! sadly something my three children 21,16 and 11 have never experienced!!! On second thoughts life wont be worth living if they cant charge their phones or flick on the Xbox!!!

Have the telegraph taken on some ex daily mail reporters?

Looking forward to it should save some money on the bill

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😉

Looks like I am going to Weeky's for Xmas.

[i]Your supermarket; the one with the electricly operated automatic doors, and the electronic tills, reliant on electronic stock control and logistics systems to deliver those foods and products produced with the aid of electricity...[/i]

The majority of large supermarkets have diesel stand by generators and there will still be food on the shelves.

Really enjoyed the powercuts! Kettle on woodburner, candles, heavyweight philosophy books and no TV or wi-fi/email. 🙂

I've been waiting for this moment all my life. I've surrounded my house with electrified barbed wire fences, installed a generator, a harem (for breeding purposes) and I've been stockpiling fuel, food heavy weaponry, and tons of ammo.

When the lights go out, I'm going to declare my house/fortress an independent state, and reveal that I am in fact the son of god

Food on the shelves? For how long when the panic begins?

When the lights go out, I'm going to declare my house/fortress an independent state, and reveal that I am in fact the son of god

You are Tony Blair and I claim my £5

[quote=ohnohesback ]Food on the shelves? For how long when the panic begins?

you seem to be the only one panicking. when are YOU going shopping..

Yes I'm ready.

I'll be relying upon our National Power Generator Companies to DO THIER BLOODY JOB.

🙄

wow I see privatisations working out really well

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or is it just scaremongering nonsense from the DT?

I'm ready already.

Live in London, they'll protect us and let the poor non-londoners freeze.

Binners

It's the things that you never expect,they will hit you hardest.

Like the first time you can't speeddial Greggs ,that's going to be hard man.

🙂

Whenever there have been recent power cuts, many shops have found themselves hamstrung.

[i]Food on the shelves? For how long when the panic begins?[/i]

I'm pretty sure tinned goods are produced long before they hit the shelves, I'm also pretty sure its not just supermarkets that have stand by generators, food producers will be the same.

The only shortages are likely to be in diesel as supplies would be prioritised for essential use. But its not going to happen.

Food on the shelves? For how long when the panic begins?

I always love a panic buying crisis! Watching all the headless chickens queuing for hours for petrol/bread is highly amusing. As for my own preparedness, I have bikes for transport, a woodburner and another soon to be installed, an allotment, a natural spring in my garden for water, and I live on the top of a hill in an easy to defend position. All I need is a shotgun and I'll be one step away from being lord of the manor 🙂

the good old days rubbish in the streets and no electricity

and Ted Heath on the TV when it did work

For he said unto them, ye folk of beards and corduroy who carry thy Gruinard under thy arm and whose nose doth run with dewy snot, I shalt give thee green lightning for thy liking and thou shalt exalt my image !
But unto them the wind did cease to blow and the world was cast into darkened sky, upon them came great swathes of heavy clouds of diesel fumes and the great castles of coal and dirty lightning was cast into the wastes of memory.
And they smite one another with plastic tablets and cast their brethren aside and begged that their children be sacrificed so they could return to thy virtual paradise.

Is ohnohesback really cressers and did he wake up this morning thinking/wishing it was Friday like the rest of us?

As for my own preparedness, I have bikes for transport, a woodburner and another soon to be installed, an allotment, a natural spring in my garden for water, [b]and I live on the top of a hill in an easy to defend position[/b]. All I need is a shotgun and I'll be one step away from being lord of the manor

See,that's what we are talking about.

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To save the missing 5% we could confiscate the laptops and mobile devices of people who squander energy talking b0770x on internet forums.

bring on the zombiepocalypse, I say!

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bring on the zombiepocalypse, I say!

Ikea have started selling logs? 😯

a natural spring in my garden for water, and I live on the top of a hill in an easy to defend position.

how's that work then?

Should I start panic buying?

Binners, there appears to be a fundamental flaw in your plan.

electrified barbed wire fences

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zippykona - Member
Should I start panic buying?

can you panic buy electricity?

To save the missing 5% we could confiscate the laptops and mobile devices of people who squander energy talking b0770x on internet forums.

I would advocate a complete shutdown of the following:
1/ ITV
2/ Sky Broadcasting
3/ Discoteques
4/ The recording, distribution and broadcast of any new music less than 10 years old, its rubbish and unnecessary, if this is successful we could re-open the discoteques for two hours on a Friday.
5/ The DLR
6/ Channel four

stoner....i dont know what that big ass silver thing is in you last picture but I want one!

tthew - Member
Binners, there appears to be a fundamental flaw in your plan.

electrified barbed wire fences
2/10.

0/10 for tthew.

In fact, bit of an own goal.

Stoner - do you have any CHP in that lot?

do you have any CHP in that lot?

Of course! 😉

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Id love to do some kind of biomass:electrical generation but it's just not a domestic option.

If I were on mains gas, Id be all over CHP combi boilers.

how's that work then?

Without wanting to go into a detailed description of the local geography (to protect my future water supply of course!), I live 'near' the top of the hill but not right at the top of it, hence the spring flows down to me. There is actually one house above me which can also access the spring, but in the event of the apocalypse, I'll be sure to quickly murder them to ensure my water supply.

Stoner what runs the pumps when the powers down?

Last year we had a 2 day power cut including most of Christmas day, we got by just fine. Quick rewire and an extension lead to a generator ran the central heating, fridge freezer, plenty of bike lights. Cooked on the Gas hob and or the BBQ\over coal in the garden. Might even do BBQ turkey and roasted veg over wood\coal again next year 🙂

for now, with the power off, the pumps dont run. The only problem would be if a power cut occured towards the beginning of a furnace burn after the boiler water has got to 75 degrees and plenty of heat still to be collected from the uncontrolled burn - the risk is that the 200L of water in the boiler gets above 95degrees. All the safety systems would kick in. However before that, assuming Im around, I would douse the fire.

A power cut in between burns would just mean I dont use the boiler. Hot water in the thermal store would provide DHW for a few days. I would turn CH off and just use the two woodburners for heat and the one in the main room for cooking on.

Longer power outs and I would rig up the inverter/leisure battery system with periodic recharge from generator sessions.

In the 70's we just got the candles out, and carried on reading, which is what we'd being doing before the lights went out.

Being slightly more dependent on electricity these days I suspect it won't be quite as much fun but I have my tin opener, camping stove and down jacket so I'm sure I'll survive.

Sadly we won't be able to get onto STW and tell each other incredulous stories of our neighbours not being able to cope 🙂

can you panic buy electricity?

I've got 2 boxes of D-cells and a box of C-cells on my desk. does that count?

I plan to start fracking in the garden and become completely independent....

Food on the shelves? For how long when the panic begins?

We'll be fine. Nobody panic buys flour, yeast and other ingredients, and Mrs PP can bake! 🙂

Be intresting when the EPOS till all go down at the local supermarkets, fuel pumps dont work, and the daily mail printing presses cant pring scary non existent trash