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There was a major power cut in a big part of Inverclyde yesterday, between about 17:50-19:00.

Alarms going off all over the place, which got the dugs going a bit iffy.

Here's the question, you would not be reading this now without either:

a: Electricity

b: A Battery of some sort

c: A Diesel generator

Could you live without electricity? The simple answer to that is no your brain needs it.

However, could you handle no supplied electricity?

No Computers

No CCTV

No Fridges

No Internet

No Mobile phones

No Sound systems

No TV

No Washing machines

Can you imagine life without supped electricity? Humans have done this for a long time so we would probably live with:

Transportation: = Horses

Meat preservation = Salt (the word 'salary' is derived from this)

Light: = Candles & oil

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Haddo House up in Aberdeenshire (now a NTS property) only installed electricity in the 60's because the previous owner (the Earl of whatever) thought that electricity was just a fad which would never take on seriously. So the tour guide said anyway.

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Why were blokes running out of their houses?

I know Inverclyde folks are a simple lot but were they really that spooked by the loss of power as to start panicking in the streets, dear god what an awful place.

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There was a power cut one night when I was studying for a University final exam. It's almost as if fate didn't want me to be successful. And fate won. bugger.

I think I've still got a bike dynamo in the cupboard somewhere- should be able to rig up something where 5 hours of furious pedalling is enough to charge up the phone to see 30 secs of porn on t'internet....

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I reckon your best bet would be to live up the hills next to a fresh water supply. Foods going to run out pretty quickly and you`re not gonna have any water to your house so thats pretty much useless. Armed gangs would probably control everything outside of major cities where the government/military are gonna try and keep some sort of control.

If your life depends on any sort of prescription medicine then you`re pretty much a gonner. Vehicles are going to be a wast of time too without any fuel delivery systems.

Wasn`t thinking about it too much but i think you`re going to have to be pretty smart or pretty lucky to survive the first winter. Should get a bit easier after that cause the population will be decimated.

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We had a typhoon hit here a few months back. Lost electricity, water and phone/mobile signal. The first day afterwards was difficult to get out and around because of all the devastation. Once things settled down, there wasn't so much of an issue not having electricity or phones. The biggest problem that started to get critical was having no water. No water to drink, no water to wash with, unable to flush toilets. That was the biggest challenge. It took five days before any relief trucks got to us with fresh water and but hat time it was getting pretty desperate.

As Typhoons are common here, I am now better prepared with some food stock, paraffin lamps, some small solar power but the big problem still remains, fresh water.

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