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I used to live in India; for the first few years I was in the village, there was still no power supply at all. Water was pulled out of a well with a rope ,and carried to the house, as it had been for milenia.

When power was brought to the place, it was quite normal for it to fail, in fact it was rare to have a week without losing power for some hours at least.
Yet most appliances were made to "western" design, which assumed that electricity was as reliable as death and taxes... so all the clocks were always blinking to be reset all the time.
We ALWAYS kept a store of water, in fact the apartment buildings in the cities are designed to support a half ton tank in each apartment.

Today though, it seems that the western world has become reliant on power second by second; we use electronic payments to the point that when the electricity goes out, we can't make simple transactions.
That's just crazy.

We take it for granted that the distant anonymous engineers will maintain and keep our power, water, sewage, and communications working, while the general public doesn't know or care how any of it actually works.

In Victorian times, engineers were celebrities, heroes. Today they're underpaid unappreciated drones, while the public adores actors, athletes, and politicians.

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if that had happened in the UK where we used to live (Nottingham) a 12 hour blackout would have seen all the local scrotes from sneinton, the meadows, and hyson green out taking advantage of the lack of street lighting and burglar alarms robbing and looting shops and homes.

here we just shrug our shoulders, try the old generator to spark it into life in case we needed it later, charged up the 'powerbank' leisure battery and sit it out, good old fashioned game of cards or connect 4 :lol: made sure the elderly neighbours where ok, and 'keep calm and carry on'

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I have just received some information from one of my frozen food companies so thought that it might help if I shared it.


According to what has been published by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 and the Frozen Spain Association we give you some guidelines:
🥶 If your freezer was full and has not been opened, it can maintain the temperature for up to 48h. If it was half full, this time is reduced to 24h.
🥩 Food that has not been completely defrosted can be refrozen, but if in doubt, we recommend that you discard it.
In any case, if the power outage in your area lasted more than 24 hours, you should check all food to confirm that it is in good condition.

I hope that this is of use to people,

Rosemary

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I was in "Iceland" today, and asked how their freezers fared; the lady told me they were ok, but if it had been more than a day they would have lost the lot.

I was also in intermarche, Aldi, Apolonia, and Continente. There didn't seem to be any emptied freezers anywhere.

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RTP reported English and German Airports were shut at the beginning - Journalists must have been on EffingBurg's FaceAche as their primary source

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Continente (the newish one) in Lagos was open all day on Monday. I was told they have their own generator. It didn’t help the chemist shop or the pet food shop though as they were both without power. Pingo was closed and the car park entrance roped off. I had cell phone coverage all day and night.

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Someone told me today that there are no generators left for sale in the country; all have been sold, big and small.