As a nipper lived in the country in a cottage supplied with less than robust electricity cables.
So inevitably the first bit of wind or snow would trip out the power requiring a team of engineers to reconnect a cable or two.

When the power went it was fantastic!

Out would come the Black and white portable TV which dad would connect to a car battery. Out would come all the candles and the oil lamps would be lit. We'd have beans on toast, cooked on the open fire instead of those boring old meals that mum would cook every evening.

And Dad would go down to the pub leaving me to my Lego and mum to her soaps. Fantastic.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 16:02, 1 reply)

We had the same thing
the power would be out for days on end.
We had a little portable TV that was just for watching Corrie on so the batteries didn't die.
we still had proper dinners though as we had our own gas tank which ran the Raburn.

Still a problem now. Any bad weather and the power goes for an hour or so.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 17 Jun 2012, 17:16, closed)