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I had no internet for last five days.

It was difficult to live without internet for five days, especially when I am home, being on leave from work. I depended on the information from BYAP forums. I had to plan for my next move, which was plumbing. Having never done any plumbing except for the most basic gardening jobs, I am following other people's experience. Of course, work related e-mails need also to be checked even if I am on leave.

Initially, internet was on and off several times for a couple of days, then went off entire day for four days. The place I live, Lochiel Parl, is not only a "Green Village", but also a "fibre estate", which means not only internet, but also phone and TV are based on optical cable. So, I had no landline phone and TV while I had no internet.

Four days is a long time. Long enough to experience the full impact of life without internet and TV.
It does make you think about the level of technical dependency our lives have on communication network.

On top of this, a sudden storm around 7pm last night cut electricity, and light came back only at 2pm, 5 hours later. I was not too worried about my fishes because my pond was big enough (5000L) and my fishes are still small. But I was thinking of increasing fish stock and the 5 hour long black out experience made me think about the need to prepare for future emergency.

My solar panels must be generating a lot of electricity and send it to electricity company.
I feel some of the surplus electricity should be stored at my house.

Life without electricity!

5 hours without electircity in evening made me sleep and sleep.
8pm without electricity lead me to sleep in sofa because there was nothing I could do execpt to listen to some audio book. After half an hour, I fell into sleep until light was back at 2pm. What to do at 2pm? Go back to sleep. For the first time in many decades, I slept for 12 hours when my normal sleeping time is 6 hours.

Thinking about life without electircity: I better sleep earler and wake up earler too. My normal pattern for many years has been 1-7am for sleep all seasons. It should be 9-3am in summer.

Sejin

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh......!!!!!! Life without internet AND electricity...?

Glad you survived it Sejin..