Three days with no electricity

Hello Nanna8 that sounds grim.
What do you mean, won't answer the phone? What are you going to do next?

Why Christmas?

Whitewavemark2

Why Christmas?

Christmas ⁇ ?

Have you tried looking online, nanna8? I think most electricity/power companies put information on their websites when there's been an outage.

Hope it's resolved soon.

You poor thing. We got lucky. Is it at least coming on and off so your freezer and fridge stay cold? A few years back we had a multi day power cut. Usually just as I was getting concerned everything would spoil we got a short wave of power before it went out again. It was enough to keep the food cold enough and phone charged. I hope your house is okay.

We just got a limb falling through the roof of our chicken coop.

That's not on in this day and age, I hope you didn't have a freezer full pf food. Where do you live nanna8 and who is your power company?

ExD - nanna8 is in Australia, not sure which region

CafeAuLait

We just got a limb falling through the roof of our chicken coop.

Windy weather? Hope the chickens are ok.

Try tweeting about it naming the power company. That usually leads to action.

FannyCornforth

ExD - nanna8 is in Australia, not sure which region

Nanna8 is in Melbourne area

Juliet27

CafeAuLait

We just got a limb falling through the roof of our chicken coop.

Windy weather? Hope the chickens are ok.

The chickens are fine. It was their outdoor area, they were tucked away for the night.

Maybe Nanna8 has a back up generator?

I was a bit puzzled, as I have found that our energy supplier and the grid control company, have generally been excellent in responding to all power and gas crises.

Now I know she lives in Australia, I epect they do things differently there.

It would be hell if it was actually Christmas!!

It would save confusion if people indicated which country they are complaining about! Saying 'we are truly a third world country here' about Australia is very misleading if people think they're in the UK. I guess it's no good asking admin for a 'country' button but it would be so helpful!

Well all in all, this has been an interesting thread.
Under the wrong heading, about an unknown country, where possibly arms and legs are spontaneously falling out of the sky!!
The premise of a good book maybe??

Chestnut this has happened before with nanna8s posts
For example, people wondering why her garden plants look so wonderful in November!

How can you use the Internet without power, presumably a generator is working so probably not seen as urgent?
It might be an idea, when you have power back on to find their dedicated Emergency Power Cut telephone number, we ring our provider and they usually have a recorded message that tells us that they are aware, this number is different to their listed number.
I’m sure that in Australia they must have a similar number.

The Energy Australia web site has a number to call if you can’t get hold of your own Electricity Provider, you call them and they do the rest, apparently.

Namsnanny

Well all in all, this has been an interesting thread.
Under the wrong heading, about an unknown country, where possibly arms and legs are spontaneously falling out of the sky!!
The premise of a good book maybe??

What do you call a tree limb then? :-) It's not a branch. Branches are small.

Oh dear this has given me a laugh especially the limb falIing through the roof and all at Christmas to!!
The neighbours must wonder about me I m laughing out loud

Computers have batteries, careful use, turning off when not using the computer could make it useable for 3 days without power.

So glad it was a bit of tree not an arm or leg!