FabSwingers.com forum: What is your plan when the lights go out

By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

Lucky we have a solid fule stove for heat a gas hob for cooking and led touches for lighting so all good.

In the southeast 111 postcodes today had a power cut we are still without, electricity from 13:35 to day the lane is being dug up again.

But what would be your plan 🤔.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
26 weeks ago

SW1A1AA

I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food

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By *wnedandtamedWoman
26 weeks ago

Manchester

Cry

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By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food"

Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷‍♂️

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

Sit happily in the dark

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By *icecouple561Couple
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26 weeks ago

East Sussex

"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food"

The central heating pump, thermostat, timer and igniter need electricity. Sorry to break it to you

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By *jslookingforfunMan
26 weeks ago

liverpool

"Sit happily in the dark"

My thoughts exactly

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By *icecouple561Couple
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26 weeks ago

East Sussex

We could cook and we have solar powered lights and some torches. We'd be very cold though

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
26 weeks ago

SW1A1AA

"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food

Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷‍♂️"
well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie

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By *ensuallover1000Man
26 weeks ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

This might be an auspicious time to take up the practice of brain surgery…..

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By *onin25Man
26 weeks ago

Durham

I have some candles and a lighter. I'll drip hot wax on my naked body to keep me warm.

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By *eekaboo BellyMan
26 weeks ago

Bradford

Go for a walk

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By *kphooey43Man
26 weeks ago

Barnet

"Sit happily in the dark"

I was here first, please get off my lap, you're rather squashing me.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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26 weeks ago

East Sussex

"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food

Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷‍♂️well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie"

I think I'd go to bed.

When there's a power cut it goes very quiet. You don't realise how much noise all our electrical gadgets make.

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By *naswingdressWoman
26 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

Big pile of blankets, pen and paper (assuming it's light out)

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By *econdtimelucky101Man
26 weeks ago

Near Birmingham.

Turn my generator on.

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By *ellhungvweMan
26 weeks ago

Cheltenham

Sit in the car and turn the heater on.

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By *infullyObedientWoman
26 weeks ago

Woodley

Candles amd torches for light

Real fire for heat

Gas for cooking

Maybe invite someone over for entertainment

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By *ortheastFarmerMan
26 weeks ago

Northumberland

Im sound.... on a farm, diesel generator just incase, diesel in stores, gas by the bottle, water in stream up the road, Ive got about 3 months off grid before I need to worry and thats without being reserved on usage.

If were talking like shit hit the fan, countries gone down, im sorted there... cant discuss that though haha

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By *orphia2003Woman
26 weeks ago

Tonypandy.

Log burner, lots of fuel, cooking stove with Hexi blocks, candles, torches, blankets.

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By *r Jason KingMan
26 weeks ago

Layton,Blackpool.

I have all electric, heating too, like the poster above, sit in the car with heater and radio

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

"Sit happily in the dark

I was here first, please get off my lap, you're rather squashing me.

It's all the mince pies, sorry.

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By *hunky GentMan
26 weeks ago

Market Deeping

I've eaten a lot of carrots, so I can see in the dark.

And I'm like a human hot water bottle, so I'll keep myself and anyone warm too.

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By *olvesxcoupleCouple
26 weeks ago

Round the bend

Candles, several layers of clothing and the camping gas stove or bbq

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By *laytime_13Woman
26 weeks ago

Lincs

This happened around this time last year 🤦‍♀️ as a result I'm stocked up on candles and matches, because sods law says it will also happen when my head torch isn't charged up. Were I not on my own I'm sure I could come up with imaginative ways of staying warm However as a single person blankets and my dressing gown it is!

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By *kphooey43Man
26 weeks ago

Barnet

"Sit happily in the dark

I was here first, please get off my lap, you're rather squashing me.

It's all the mince pies, sorry."

I believe the Kraken may have upset your balance, I'll let you off.

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By *vaRoseWoman
26 weeks ago

Ankh-Morpork

Happens fairly frequently in the forest

A few candles

Head to the pub with the rest of the locals

It’ll be fine

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By *ust_us999Couple
26 weeks ago

Somewhere

Went 2 weeks without power last year during the storm in January, not much you can do 😂. Read a book and sit next to the fire.

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By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

"I dont know. I feel sorry for those poor people. I have gas heating so I will be ok. But everything i cook on is electric. I'd just eat cold food

Your gas heating boiler and system need electricity to run unless it's really old. If you have a pump it won't work. 🤷‍♂️well then I will just have to sit on my floor length oodie

I think I'd go to bed.

When there's a power cut it goes very quiet. You don't realise how much noise all our electrical gadgets make. "

Just been woken to the power coming back on some lights that where switched when the power was off a freezer alarm plus the beeps from everything powering back up.

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By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

"Turn my generator on."

Now that's prepared.

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By *asualandFeistyCouple
26 weeks ago

Uxbridge

Camping power bank and lights. Should give us enough power to last 24 hours or more. Provide enough light to use the kitchen (gas cooker), and charge small devices.

And obviously..... early night 😉

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
26 weeks ago

Willenhall

"We could cook and we have solar powered lights and some torches. We'd be very cold though "

If you can cook you can presumably boil water. If you can boil water you can fill hot water bottles up.

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

Light a few candles get romantic and have a long passionate sex session

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By *li LuckWoman
26 weeks ago

North devon

Power cut plan consists of hiding in my mums house cos im all electric but she has a wood burner and lpg gas cooker. Happened last year as was put for a couple of days. Luckily the kid were at their dads and his area wasn't effected.

Spent time drinking and knitting. In the evening and had bacon sarnies for breakfast. Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

We have a log burner and plenty of wood,and a 3.5 kva generator to plug in to if we need,so happy days

And candles somewhere in the cubard,,

My heart goes out to those people in the Ukraine, there power is a target,

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By *elaxed CoupleCouple
26 weeks ago

Cheshire

16 solar panels, 27kw of battery storage, 200L of hot water & AI inside the system. Apparently there's been 3 power cuts since we installed it all. We didn't even notice them.

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

I initially thought this thread was about when you die!🤦‍♀️😏

Would need more than candles & solar panels to keep you ticking over!!

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By *hree_into_oneCouple
26 weeks ago

warrington

Regular in the 70’s

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By (user no longer on site)
26 weeks ago

Go to bed, catch up on some beauty sleep 😴

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By *elaxed CoupleCouple
26 weeks ago

Cheshire

"I initially thought this thread was about when you die!🤦‍♀️😏

Would need more than candles & solar panels to keep you ticking over!!"

Oh when you die. Yeah there's an instruction. I don't care what happens except that everyone gets wasted in my local. My mate that runs the local Indian restaurant feeds everyone & Mrs RC is instructed to buy the biggest headstone that money can buy.

Why?

It's my final joke. In 100 years time, some intellectual will make a TV programme about headstones for quest or whatever it'll be then. They'll do a shed load of research to find out why I was so important, just to discover I was just man on the street that loved having a giggle. The final piss take.

I love the idea that 100 years after I'm gone that some chin scratcher will put time into something as pointless as figuring out who I was.

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By *gincourt_againMan
26 weeks ago

in the shadows of a mountain

"I initially thought this thread was about when you die!🤦‍♀️😏

Would need more than candles & solar panels to keep you ticking over!!"

Fuck all happens when you die.

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By *og and MuseCouple
26 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Put a cock in my mouth and say 'it wasn't me' when the lights come back on

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By *007ManMan
26 weeks ago

Worthing

Gas for water and cook. I have windup torch and plenty of books!

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By *earditallWoman
26 weeks ago

Lancaster

We had a 4 day power cut some years ago it was just bloody awful 😖 i was still in my old job so very stressful.

So now I'm more organised have a gas cooker and a burner and always have lots of battery light on the house

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By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

"16 solar panels, 27kw of battery storage, 200L of hot water & AI inside the system. Apparently there's been 3 power cuts since we installed it all. We didn't even notice them."

So what was the investment 🤔.

For what 3 power cuts.

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By *ove2pleaseseuk OP Man
26 weeks ago

Hastings

"Gas for water and cook. I have windup torch and plenty of books!"

Again gas for water do you mean a boiler that needs electricity to run and burn the gas. 🔥

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