Farm1 wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
....
As the rains were coming we got a nice lightning storm. The tree on the
hill 200m south coped a strike and my computer's power supply (despite
surge protection) and the fuses on my sewerage plant went. As well we had
to get the house transformer fuses fixed too and the rural fire service to
put out the fire the strike started. It could have been worse, some
people lost most of their appliances (from other strikes).

Bugger! None of that sounds like fun.

certainly more exciting than i'd like to be near. for
one a lightning strike that close to the house is loud!
the fire would not be much fun either.


We had a powerful storm last night
and last power for 3 hours just on dinner time. Lucky for us the toilet
operates on gravity feed from a tank on the hill and we have lots of camping
equipment so I brought in a bucket of water and we were right till the power
came back on.

we didn't get hit by the power outages last weekend
from the strong storms that went through, but we did
have a power outage here last night too. something
in the distance arc'd and lit up the sky a few times
while the power went off and on and then it finally
stayed off. four hours later it came back on and
things went back to normal. we always have extra
water stashed away to flush the toilets in case we
have the power go out on us. in the winter i more
worry about heat than anything as it gets cold
enough to freeze pipes and cause damage. we have a
gas fireplace so we can keep ourselves from freezing
but that doesn't heat the crawlspace underneath.


These events seem to have become more regular.

perhaps two very strong hurricanes/typhoons so close
together will finally wake up the governments and peoples
to make much stronger changes... i can sure hope so.

in the meantime i think we're only on the front edge of
this sort of thing, both frequency and strength are likely
to increase for some folks.


songbird