Bit of early morning excitement *EDIT X2*

Got up at 6:30 because I needed the toilet, had power.

Went to get up at 7:30 as I couldn’t get back to sleep.  Said good morning to the Nest Mini which is supposed to switch on the light (I have smart bulbs in the bedroom, hall and living room).  No response.

Went into the living room, the standby light on the telly is out.  Kitchen?  No sound from the fridge and the boiler is out.

Crap.

Went downstairs to the shop I live above.  Sure enough, they have no power either.  Phone Northern Powergrid (as they be the bods in charge) and they tell me that they don’t know about an outage, but it could be that I’m the first to report an issue.  They’ll send a team but, because of the storm, it could take up to 5 hours.

Thankfully, my power returns at 9:15.  Northern Powergrid calls back about 10.  Was a more widespread thing (35 calls about 70 properties).

So, that was the start to my day.

Will

*EDIT* despite being told that once the power was back it’d be back permanently, it’s gone again.  The issue is affecting 120 properties and I could have no power until 3:30.

Thank Bob I bought my insanely large power bank.

Will

*SON OF EDIT* I got a text saying it may be as late as 7:45 before it was fixed.  10 minutes ago, 5 minutes later than the original estimate, the power is back.  Fingers crossed it sticks.

Oh, and I did get my meds today.

Will