On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:49:46 -0600, Christine Dabney
> shouted from the highest rooftop:

>On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:45:08 +1200, bob in nz
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:27:44 -0600, "Janet Bostwick"
> shouted from the highest rooftop:
>>
>
>>>> Miche in Dunedin is not that far from the epicentre and would have
>>>> probably felt it. But since there were not injuries, we can hope that
>>>> Miche is fine.
>>>>
>>>It sounds as though they will be without power and water for a while.
>>>Janet
>>
>>That's not good. We were without power for around 36 hours last
>>weekend, but that was due to a nasty storm up here (2,000 kms from the
>>epicentre). At least we had water (in our two six thousand gallon
>>water tanks).
>
>If they are without power, I bet Miche is busy, busy, busy....if she
>is okay. She is a journeyman electrician these days..

A "sparkie" eh? Maybe she can explain why different parts of our house
sometimes go out during power outages and not others.

Last week it was the entire upstairs (which included my office,
computer, wireless, etc), all of the garage, but only certain parts of
the downstairs (eg: our electric oven, but not our microwave, the
reading lights behind our bed, but not the bedside table lamps, the
power outlet on the east facing kitchen counter wall, but not the one
a foot away on the south counter wall.) Thankfully, the
fridge/freezers & waterpump all worked, the stove top is gas, our
woodfire has a wetback that heats the water and I'd replenished the
supply of firewood in the garage from outside before the storm hit.

We have what's called 3-phase power and no-one can explain it to me.

Last time it our entire kitchen, the water pump and one of the two
refrigerators were out, but most of the upstairs (including my office)
were fine. It's different every time ...

But we're thankful when we don't have a complete power outage. Last
time we had one of those it lasted for several days.


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