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posted by [personal profile] laylee at 06:54pm on 16/01/2007 under
Huh, the power just went out. at first I thought it was just me, but I checked all the fuses and they were fine, so I went down to see if anyone else in my building had lost their power and my neighbour told me it has gone out all over Melbourne.

I wouldn't mind so much if it weren't so hot, but no power means no fan, and no fan means a very sweaty Laylee :~\

I'm working off battery on my laptop at the moment, but that's only good for about three hours so I hope it doesn't take too long for them to fix things. Not to mention the potential disaster that is my freezer.

ETA: The power's back on, although it's randomly gone out again a couple of times, but never for more than five minutes. Apparently it's due to the bushfires knocking out an interconnector in Victoria's north-east. It's going to be another very hot day tomorrow, and there's no relief in sight. This map can give you an idea of the worst affected areas.

Note to self: buy candles or a torch, preferably both.
Mood:: 'peeved' peeved
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 08:07am on 16/01/2007
Power cuts are horrible - and scary, especially nowadays. You really realise how totally dependent you are on technology. No light, no telly, no pooter, no CD player, no radio (unless you have a wind-up one); you probably can't cook or even make tea (we have a gas hob, that we can light with matches, so we're a bit better off there), the water goes cold - not to mention, as you said, the fridge and the freezer.

So that was me being cheering. Huh. I hope the power comes back on soon.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 08:21am on 16/01/2007
My pooter is okay as long as the battery lasts, and it's too hot for warm drinks anyway. Plus, I'd only just finished cooking dinner so at least I didn't have to deal with half-cooked pork skewers. I was making fritatatatatata for my lunch when the power cut out and now I have no way of finishing it because, of course, electric oven!
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 01:02am on 17/01/2007
I think today was just a really horrible, crap day for everyone. Something in the alignment of the planet (or some such bollix) perhaps. I would like to think that this means we're due something nice tomorrow, but.
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posted by [identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com at 08:54am on 16/01/2007
Well, according to The Age, it's all because of the bushfire. Some of the power lines were affected and hence blackout.

Thank god my place wasn't affected!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 10:25am on 16/01/2007
Yeah, that's what I heard. Funny thing is, my friends who live five minutes away in Clifton Hill were unaffected while I was sitting in the almost dark!
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posted by [identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com at 11:33am on 16/01/2007
Aww...

::hugs::
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posted by [identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com at 09:18am on 16/01/2007
Just after reading that my pooter cut out and I thought perhaps it was infectious, but it turned out to be a rare fit of pique on the part of the pooter and not a power cut at all.

Hope it gets sorted soon.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 10:27am on 16/01/2007
It came back on just under an hour later. And since its daylight savings here it wasn't so bad. At least I wasn't driving in the areas where traffic lights went out.
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posted by [identity profile] delurker.livejournal.com at 09:52am on 16/01/2007
The bushfire took out power to our area - I was out driving with Younger Sister (to buy a new mobile, yay!) and a whole heap of the traffic lights were out in the area. The final right hand turn getting home was a bit hairy!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 10:28am on 16/01/2007
I heard there was a bit of traffic chaos. And a lot of trains have been cancelled today as well.

Yay, new phone!
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posted by [identity profile] slashybits.livejournal.com at 12:01pm on 16/01/2007
Our power was out between about 4-5pm. Definitely not fun in this heat.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 12:12pm on 16/01/2007
Ours was only out for a short while, but I really did miss my fan during that 50 minutes!
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posted by [identity profile] redhedlvr.livejournal.com at 12:23pm on 16/01/2007
Yeah, it always seems to go out right in the hottest/coldest time of the year. We had an outage last summer (July-ish) that lasted 24 hours. Which wasn't too bad considering that others in the area took 3 and 4 days to get restored.

And a dorky kind of related story. I have a garage door opener. Which is electric. Which won't work when there's no power. I had figured, I'd just go off to the gym and shower, then go on to work. But when I walked out to the garage, I realized I couldn't get my car out. Woops. Apparently there is a release mechanism that's supposed to have a bright red dangly cord on it which someone thoughtfully removed. And the EX never explained this fact to me when he installed the thing. But there is a happy ending. I just called my son and he came over to free me from the garage. Guess he helped put the thing in. Doh!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 12:32pm on 16/01/2007
It's the bushfires that are knocking us about, but with the high temperatures set to continue until the weekend it may even get worse.

After I posted this I was got a text form a friend (with power) asking me over for cheesecake. Fortunately I'd already decided to ride my bike because the electric gates to the yard wouldn't open!
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posted by [identity profile] redhedlvr.livejournal.com at 12:08pm on 17/01/2007
Its scary how dependent we are on electric power. Hope the cheesecake was good. And, smart girl you are, you worked those calories off by biking over and back!
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