From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:431b4130{at}w3.nls.net...
> I have a feel for it. Last year when we had the big blackout I discovered
> there were a lot of things I take for granted with smaller blackouts.
>
> For example I have a generator, when the power goes off by my house I can
> drive to a nearby gas station and get gas for my generator but during the
> big one none of the gas stations in driving distance had power so I
> couldn't
> get any gas.
>
> It's little things like that you never plan for until you experience a
> large
> scale problem like this.

A couple of years ago we had 2 days without power. It was cold, but the
house warms well with wood, and we can even cook with fire (to some extent
at least), but my problem was water - my well is a drill-hole, where the
water level is about 15 meters below ground surface, in a hole that's maybe
15 centimeters in diameter, so there's no way to get water from it without
the pump working. Also, nobody really buys water from the stores here, so
the few small bottles that they had were sold probably during the first
fifteen minutes.


Antti Kurenniemi
(It never rains when it should)

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