JohnnyD
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 3, 2023 9:54:42 GMT 1
WoW power still off this morning......
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 3, 2023 10:16:15 GMT 1
Nothing from AP this morning, so hopefully they are on the ferry…..
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Post by Gigi on Nov 3, 2023 11:37:32 GMT 1
Nothing from AP this morning, so hopefully they are on the ferry….. I was thinking that - hope all is calm for them. Hope your electricity is back on soon, Johnny.
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 3, 2023 12:17:39 GMT 1
Nothing from AP this morning, so hopefully they are on the ferry….. I was thinking that - hope all is calm for them. Hope your electricity is back on soon, Johnny. Leccy is back........
YeY
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Post by crabtree24 on Nov 3, 2023 13:16:20 GMT 1
I was thinking that - hope all is calm for them. Hope your electricity is back on soon, Johnny. Leccy is back........
YeY
Following a storm a few years ago we were off for almost 5 days.
Locals told me that after the storm of 1999, they were off for almost 2 weeks!
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Post by jackie on Nov 3, 2023 14:25:45 GMT 1
Some friends have been told they’ll be cut off for about a week. Luckily they have a generator and gas supply.
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Post by annabellespapa on Nov 4, 2023 9:54:54 GMT 1
Nothing from AP this morning, so hopefully they are on the ferry….. I was thinking that - hope all is calm for them. Hope your electricity is back on soon, Johnny. Thanks both for your concern, we had electricity throughout Wednesday night/Thursday morning just a few flickers but not enough zero the digital clock on my bedside cabinet, we were keeping an eye on a friends house and as it was close to our vets (who had no electricity) we visited, pots that we had thought immoveable moved quite a bit and garden furniture which we stacked up against the house protected from the westerly wind had moved. They had electricity also, the ,local village bakery, carefour market petrol station were all shut with no electricity but everything was just about OK. I went to the local Lidl supermarket in the afternoon and it looked like a plague of locusts had visited and emptied most dry and tinned products from the shelves, the freezer section was sealed off and the chilled produce had the shutters down, I suspected they had had a power cut and being cautious. We mapped the ferry (app- boatwatch ) out of Portsmouth at about 8.30 am so new it was on its way, the 2 crossings for Thursday were cancelled which was lucky for us. We headed to Caen and another local town we passed through all the power was still off and had been since late Wednesday evening, the bakery had baked a quantity of bread at another bakers and were happily selling it. Fairly uneventful trip up to Caen and we knew the boat had docked just slightly later than normal, our crossing was a bit choppy but not too bad, OH got a message saying there was another storm coming today in our part of Brittany and a yellow weather warning, I think we got out at the right time. Edit- Storm Domingo hit our part of Brittany last but as Sue says below not as powerful and everything that could be strapped down was.
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Post by suein56 on Nov 4, 2023 10:16:17 GMT 1
It's really started again here after a blustery night .. we now have much stronger winds interspersed with heavy rain. Tho, according to the Accu weather site we shouldn't be as badly affected as last time. So gusts of 95kph rather than 115kph.
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Post by houpla on Nov 4, 2023 11:09:31 GMT 1
Considering that we've hardly suffered more than a strong breeze here in 47, there was a huge oak tree down this morning across the chemin which gives us access to the main road. It took down the power and telephone lines, but miraculously everything's still functioning. The droll part was sitting in my neighbour's kitchen participating in the tree's owners' attempts to notify Orange and Enedis. Granted, they're a bit busy up North at the mo, but in a way it's reassuring that native French have an equally frustrating experience with the service providers It's an ill wind etc..... OH now has an impressive supply of oak sawdust for his smoker
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Post by mysty on Nov 5, 2023 13:33:37 GMT 1
Elderly man with white hair and a beeny hat spotted in Brittany with two toilet rolls and a bit of sting trying to get an internet signal. Still no sign of Ardvark.
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 7, 2023 17:47:17 GMT 1
Hi kiddies. I'm back. No power here at all from Wednesday night to Saturday morning and then intermittent on/off since then. No power here meant no internet or landline ('cause its through a Livebox). Absolutely no communications around here and the nearest two towns were both without internet so quite a few places just shut down (because their internet controls their credit card transactions) Just my luck our fosse is at the top of its capacity and I couldn't get a message to Le Vidangeur Breton to come to empty it. After two abortive trips to find his place of business (the gps went mental because the big motorway that cuts through Bretagne wasn't in its memory) we gave it up today and I posted a letter this afternoon but couldn't send it with a paid for confirmation of receipt because the P.O. didn't have internet access to register it. Also couldn't open the till to give me change for the stamp I bought. Bless her, she appeared to be stressed about not being able to give me the 4 cents change I was due. Hey, I'm poor enough but I'm not that poor. Anyway the 'net came back this afternoon and we're getting caught up with 6 days of emails and comms. I am now looking at finding a change of tactics for communications. Satellite phone and diesel generators are mega expensive but I think that is where we will be going. Living in the 19th century was fun at first but its now too stressful.
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Post by JohnnyD on Nov 7, 2023 18:09:42 GMT 1
Yey......welcome back, makes our power outage sound like a holiday........and we were not even there
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Post by suein56 on Nov 7, 2023 19:15:51 GMT 1
Hi kiddies. I'm back. No power here at all from Wednesday night to Saturday morning and then intermittent on/off since then. No power here meant no internet or landline ('cause its through a Livebox). Absolutely no communications around here and the nearest two towns were both without internet .. I am now looking at finding a change of tactics for communications. Satellite phone and diesel generators are mega expensive but I think that is where we will be going. Living in the 19th century was fun at first but its now too stressful. Good to have you back. You have certainly been on the rough end of the storm .. makes our experience seem like a walk in the park. Happy to hear you are both OK. I heard your roof has an extra hole in it thanks to a falling tree I really hope you can get that fixed without too much expense or difficulty.
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Post by Nifty on Nov 8, 2023 8:55:46 GMT 1
‘ Living in the 19th century was fun at first but its now too stressful.‘
Looking fo rants ?
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Post by mysty on Nov 8, 2023 22:09:07 GMT 1
Hi kiddies. I'm back. No power here at all from Wednesday night to Saturday morning and then intermittent on/off since then. No power here meant no internet or landline ('cause its through a Livebox). Absolutely no communications around here and the nearest two towns were both without internet so quite a few places just shut down (because their internet controls their credit card transactions) Just my luck our fosse is at the top of its capacity and I couldn't get a message to Le Vidangeur Breton to come to empty it. After two abortive trips to find his place of business (the gps went mental because the big motorway that cuts through Bretagne wasn't in its memory) we gave it up today and I posted a letter this afternoon but couldn't send it with a paid for confirmation of receipt because the P.O. didn't have internet access to register it. Also couldn't open the till to give me change for the stamp I bought. Bless her, she appeared to be stressed about not being able to give me the 4 cents change I was due. Hey, I'm poor enough but I'm not that poor. Anyway the 'net came back this afternoon and we're getting caught up with 6 days of emails and comms. I am now looking at finding a change of tactics for communications. Satellite phone and diesel generators are mega expensive but I think that is where we will be going. Living in the 19th century was fun at first but its now too stressful. Good you made it through the storm are the chickens okay.
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