We had a major blackout in our area yesterday afternoon and was without power all night.
That's the fourth day in a row we've had blackouts, but this was the longest outage of all.
Gotta hand it to the emergency personnel that work around the clock in all sorts of weather conditions to get things back to normal.
Power was restored 9.30 this morning.
Not easy to do without power for any length of time that's for sure.
Last night was mayhem here, trying to organize 8 young children, bathe, feed and settle down before bed is all that much harder when there's no power.
I was online at the time of the failure but luckily I have a small UPS for my computer to power things down safely until power's restored. I highly recommend these units, they help prevent HD/system being corrupt by power fluctuations.
I bought a 1000w unit from Jaycar for $199 that uses two 12v SLA's (easily replaceable).
A must have device IMO.
Now to catch up on all the posts.......
