Explain this if you will. My electricity went off at around 8.00 pm last night and I connected up my generator at about 6.00 am this morning which I had running until midday. I checked every half hour or so to see if my supply had been restored but to no avail and eventually popped over to check with my neighbour who said that she hadn’t suffered any power outage at all. This didn’t surprise me because relatively speaking, my connection was made from a box ‘up’ the road whereas hers comes from further ‘down’ so she could easily be connected via a different sector.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I thought that it was about time that I ran a check on my connection, so I dug out an electric saw and plugged it into the unused, second socket that I fixed on the side of my electrical box up near the road. And it worked. This meant that electricity was obviously being delivered. So I checked the other socket to which my caravan was connected and that worked too, so no problem there.<\/p>\n
I’ve had to use three extension leads to get down to the bottom of my land where the caravan now is all of which were used previously when I connected to my neighbour’s house when I first moved into my caravan and have been used since. Even so, I thought that it’d be a good idea to check each one in turn. So I did, and to cut a long story short, each one worked fine. So then I connected the caravan up to the third one, as it had been previously, and it worked.<\/p>\n
So what’s going on? Was the power restored by EDF just by coincidence, moments before I decided to test my cables? Or alternatively, was a gremlin at work playing games with my electricity at my expense? I guess I’ll never know, but at least the experience has made me set up my generator on a fine day so it’ll be ready next time I need it, because you can bet that when that time comes, it’ll be pitch black and pouring with rain. That’s what I’m thinking anyway, and it’s helping me feel a bit better about things… \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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