boothy wrote:
Oh dear.
I was working in the pub – we’d got a full pub and just taken bare orders, when the power went off for the whole village. It was completely unscheduled and took them 3 hours to fix, in which time we couldn’t cook most of our food, had no friers, microwaves etc. and just a gas oven, tried getting certain things out but people were really dickish and were walking out, as though it was our fault. The pub lost hundreds of pounds.
when there was load of winds earlier this year it blew the overhead cables together where I worked and they are uninsulated wire at 400V – luckily it was Friday night and I have a UPS protecting all the important stuff like the network drives, telephone system and switches/routers but i had to come in to work at the weekend to restart all the equipment as the UPS battery had run down..
People seem to take electricity for granted these days … and don’t realise just how ropey some of the infrastructure is – surely if there is gas then some things can still be cooked?
I’d still have stayed in the pub, probably just taken the LED lamps off my bike and brought them in for light lol – actually I usually always carry a torch just in case as I work out in the sticks
if it meant eating/drinking something different wouldn’t have bothered me, we need to be prepared for these things…
