{"id":228,"date":"2008-11-27T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-11-27T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T02:15:21","slug":"power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2008\/11\/power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a 4 hour long power outage this morning at home.  Always a surprise to see how great your preparedness is not. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nIt is always good in a way.. gives one a chance to review and take steps to make it better for next time&#8230; and there is always a next time.<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081127-42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-231\" title=\"20081127-42\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081127-42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOut in our rural area, we get at least a half dozen outages each winter.<br \/>\nAfter the moresnowthannormal winter of 2007 we thought we were ahead of the ball game, preparedness wise.<br \/>\nWhat happened this morning?<br \/>\nWell we did have the embers of a fire from last night going, and added more wood to get the heat up.<br \/>\nThe two 110vac plugin nightlights with battery backup&#8230; both failed.<br \/>\nOne was turned off and the other was unplugged and dead.<br \/>\nThe clock radio alarm&#8230; didn&#8217;t work even with batteries.  That&#8217;s out and the old one is back.  It may not display the time on batteries but the alarm function still works.<br \/>\nWe did have a lot of utility water stored away and some bottled water .. so that was good.  The kettle went on the wood stove with no problem either and hot tea was on the way just as the power came back on.<br \/>\nOther notes and thoughts:<br \/>\nNot enough matches and candles and flashlights in all of the obvious places.<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20080907-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-229\" title=\"20080907-03\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20080907-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCats are underfoot even more than normal in the dark!\u00a0 Maybe we get them glow in the dark collars&#8230; or little cat mounted LED lights \ud83d\ude42  That would be cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a 4 hour long power outage this morning at home. Always a surprise to see how great your preparedness is not. \ud83d\ude42 It is always good in a way.. gives one a chance to review and take steps to make it better for next time&#8230; and there is always a next time. Out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}