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craig180
2nd April 2009, 20:33
omfg everything has just gone blackout for miles around!

praise the lord for mobile interwebz

spooky though sat here with just house alarms going off nott being able to see owt!
stevie_m
2nd April 2009, 20:35
it happened to us on monday, more or less the north end of glasgow and the west coast of scotland was out of power due to a bloody fuse blowing
Mystic
2nd April 2009, 20:43
Last year there was big ones around my area too. Go out for a drive in it. Pitch black streets & no traffic lights ftw. Its eerie like a zombie movie :P
stompin-sarah
2nd April 2009, 20:46
used to get a lot of power cuts at my old area... once we had like 9 consecutive days of a power cut at the same time of teatime for like 3 hours.....

and yeah as mystic says it is like a eerie feeling when outside in them in the dark :)
Mr_P
2nd April 2009, 20:48
I always remember we had a power coat on christmas day as my mother was cooking the dinner (electric oven) Luckily that was the first ever time my mother had cooked the turkey on christmas eve!

Granted, we were freezing! But we had turkey! lolz :P
Woodsie24
2nd April 2009, 20:50
Use to get quite alot around here a few years ago. Weekly occurrences (N)

Power was out for 2 and a half days once.. Was so boring lol :(
gouldy87
2nd April 2009, 20:56
thats dewsbury for you craig!!!
steviee90
2nd April 2009, 20:57
i think there may have been one here today.... i got home to find my clock 1 hour 20 mins slow
Olly
2nd April 2009, 20:59
lol the house alarms arent going off cause of the power cut..... its the pikeys planned mass steal

seriously though, do all the house alarms really go off?....live in the country u see...
Mr_P
2nd April 2009, 21:03
Most house alarms do have a battery back up which will set off the alarm if your supply is lost. Just like car alarms :y:

Same as mains powered smoke alarms, They will beep if power is lost.
craig180
2nd April 2009, 21:06
thats dewsbury for you craig!!!
lol someone forget to put s quid in the meter?
lol the house alarms arent going off cause of the power cut..... its the pikeys planned mass steal

seriously though, do all the house alarms really go off?....live in the country u see...

mine doesn't cos we have battery back up, cheap alarms do though

I'm now sat eating ice cream by candlelight!
Olly
2nd April 2009, 21:13
Most house alarms do have a battery back up which will set off the alarm if your supply is lost. Just like car alarms :y:

Same as mains powered smoke alarms, They will beep if power is lost.

got to be annoying really!
smiith
2nd April 2009, 21:15
i think its time to "go nuclear" and turn the main beam on

http://sparetimes.visiterblogs.co.uk/AlanPartridge.jpg
craig180
2nd April 2009, 21:38
And we're back again!

Smiith, wtf is that?!!!
Clouds_mate
2nd April 2009, 21:40
Funny you say that. Ive just got home and loads of alarms were going off around.
Karl
2nd April 2009, 21:50
Down south is okay.
Thieves and crooks up north.
craig180
2nd April 2009, 21:52
Down south is okay.
Thieves and crooks up north.

I didn't find anyone rummaging around the house when the lights came back on :p
lakey_xs
2nd April 2009, 22:04
seems to be the north we had 1 for like 6 hours last week us north lads are real men not like the london pritty boys lol
Viper
3rd April 2009, 00:08
lol

if that happened to me at home, with alarms going off, i would sit there with a gun for sure!
Amiee
3rd April 2009, 08:18
Used to get them all the time at my mums place (tiny little road in the middle of nowehere) worst one was when we was building the house , had half a roof so was drafty and cold anyways but then not having power for 5 days was a night mare!!!

Ended up going stay in hotel for a week lol!