This is why I've been upgrading by downgrading .
I've been waiting months for my new dumb meter, and still no nearer instalation. No word from them despite several phone calls to them and promises to get back to me with an installation date.
I may have less than a month's worth of household electricity supply left.
I will cope as I have been deliberately working towards how I lived in the 70's with no fridge and only a gas stove, and wood burner.
I don't drive a car, so petrol isn't a problem. I hand wash my clothes, often in cold water as the water heater only goes on once a week.
I'd miss my shower, but almost everything else in the home is doable without power. I have a small jackery and solar pannel, so that will power a radio and charge a phone.
I'm growing veg, and salads for food resilience, and I can forage if need be.
I like living with less, as it gives me peace of mind if there is a big power outage. I won't be panicking or changing much about my lifestyle.
On another note, apparently there was a near tripping of our grid on Sunday morning, and again in the evening. Can't remember where I saw it, on my news feed I think. Also this week a substation caught fire somewhere in London. There have been outages all over the country this week, Cornwall, plymouth(may be the same one), and somewhere else that I've forgotten. So it's becoming a regular occurance. I expect a lot more substation fires, like the one at Heathrow causing localised problems, but its not inconceivable that a nationwide outage might happen this summer.
The amount of solar flares of late have been quite a worry for those in the know, and could well cause a modern Carrington event of much bigger magnitude.
I'm not a geophysicist, but the earth has its own electrical system and its being disrupted by the electrical disturbances of the atmosphere by flares.
Can't explain it properly, but its a very real scenario and threat , and that's without cyber attacks as we've had this week on supermarkets, m&s and Co op. A concerted attack on banks, supermarkets and the grid, maybe the rail system too, will cause chaos, and there are certain actors who want this, hence the uptick in cyber attacks recently. They are practising!!!!!
I'd rather be wrong about that, but prepare for the worst, and hope for the best. An adage that's stood me in good sted on more than one occasion.
I don't understand why people think it's fearmongering to talk about these things.
I call myself common sensely prepared to stay reasonably comfortable,but I'm not a "prepper" in the yt Canadian prepper macho idea. He's just entertainment! Makes me laugh, and I realy don't bother with that sort of stuff.
Anna's food and lifestyle is much more sensible and realisticly aligned with me.
I've been waiting months for my new dumb meter, and still no nearer instalation. No word from them despite several phone calls to them and promises to get back to me with an installation date.
I may have less than a month's worth of household electricity supply left.
I will cope as I have been deliberately working towards how I lived in the 70's with no fridge and only a gas stove, and wood burner.
I don't drive a car, so petrol isn't a problem. I hand wash my clothes, often in cold water as the water heater only goes on once a week.
I'd miss my shower, but almost everything else in the home is doable without power. I have a small jackery and solar pannel, so that will power a radio and charge a phone.
I'm growing veg, and salads for food resilience, and I can forage if need be.
I like living with less, as it gives me peace of mind if there is a big power outage. I won't be panicking or changing much about my lifestyle.
On another note, apparently there was a near tripping of our grid on Sunday morning, and again in the evening. Can't remember where I saw it, on my news feed I think. Also this week a substation caught fire somewhere in London. There have been outages all over the country this week, Cornwall, plymouth(may be the same one), and somewhere else that I've forgotten. So it's becoming a regular occurance. I expect a lot more substation fires, like the one at Heathrow causing localised problems, but its not inconceivable that a nationwide outage might happen this summer.
The amount of solar flares of late have been quite a worry for those in the know, and could well cause a modern Carrington event of much bigger magnitude.
I'm not a geophysicist, but the earth has its own electrical system and its being disrupted by the electrical disturbances of the atmosphere by flares.
Can't explain it properly, but its a very real scenario and threat , and that's without cyber attacks as we've had this week on supermarkets, m&s and Co op. A concerted attack on banks, supermarkets and the grid, maybe the rail system too, will cause chaos, and there are certain actors who want this, hence the uptick in cyber attacks recently. They are practising!!!!!
I'd rather be wrong about that, but prepare for the worst, and hope for the best. An adage that's stood me in good sted on more than one occasion.
I don't understand why people think it's fearmongering to talk about these things.
I call myself common sensely prepared to stay reasonably comfortable,but I'm not a "prepper" in the yt Canadian prepper macho idea. He's just entertainment! Makes me laugh, and I realy don't bother with that sort of stuff.
Anna's food and lifestyle is much more sensible and realisticly aligned with me.
