FNQBunyip wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:04 am
48mm here this morning.
New Modem and wall socket ect ect and ADSL is up and running again.
Gutters still disconnected as the rain has just been soft and still a lot of flowers on the roof , need a real down poor too clean it .
filled plenty of water bottles and the kitchen fountain thing.
Yeah the old power out and sudden silence / no fan, wakes you up pretty quick.
Our creek is still loaded with tannins too Marakai , but we only shower in it not drink so don't notice it much.
Cheers
We have Satellite here, Drops out in heavy rain etc but only as long as the storm last's or until the cloud cover clears. Don't know how well a dish would work for you up where you are but I find it work's well enough for us even when the grid drops out as we can power it ourselves if we want to. We had three months of zero home phone conection in the local floods last year due to flooding of our old copper connection line. Satellite Internet worked fine nearly 90% of the time though even when we were on our own genny power.
Same story with Vast TV for us, $500 for a dish and receiver box and we have TV so long as we have power which we can produce ourselves, as long as we have fuel for the genny. TV plus a load of radio stations as long as you have the decoder box. Internet and all that comes with it as well so long as you have your own power too.
I had Immediate Family in Cairns when Yasi hit and they were without power for well over a week in the Northern Beaches at the time, fridges and freezers full of rotting food due to a lack of power. All for want of a generator and fuel.
In this day and age, just having an AM radio to listen in on is akin to a 1920's style of alertness when it comes to knowing what is happening. You can buy a 2kva genny with a built in 3-500 watt inverter for less than a grand now which can power your coms + a car fridge and internet for SFA, even just having the ability to refrigerate or power lights and phones is worth the purchase price of a small genny in this part of the world. All this and a stockpile of food (and Tobacco if you are a smoker)....
Just Imagine that the day after tomorrow the shops never opened again... How long would your cupboards last for things like toilet paper, milk, etc... How long could you feed yourselves with what is on your shelves and in your fridge ?
Serious question, what do you do when the shops run out of toilet paper and the Toilet wont flush any more ?