Cyclone Alfred

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

If you stiĺl have concerns tomorrow afternoon, I'll knock on their door if you like John. Hopefully the ferry will be back running.

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Thanks, Ian, but I have been able to contact them this morning. They are OK, and now have power back. No power meant no landline, and despite being in sight of the phone tower, no mobile most of the time.

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Originally Posted by BradC

Now we are reliant on the all singing and dancing nbn for land line comms, we're ****ed.

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. Guess they ran out of beer coasters.

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If it were my mum and I had radio silence, I'd be more thinking about the total lack of redundancy in our comms systems

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Faced this very dilemma with my mum. Bedridden and 100. Up here it’s fires that are the problem, and usually the very first thing that goes out is the power. No power, no NBN, and thus no landline ever though you have to pay extra to get it. Also, no power, not mobile service. So radio silence is de rigueur . Funny, the old copper pair seemed to survive well past the time to run away, and never needed a he power.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

...... No power meant no landline, and despite being in sight of the phone tower, no mobile most of the time.

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For this sort of reason I think most low voltage overhead cables should go underground or at the very least be replaced with ABC's.....Aerial bundled cables (also aerial bundled conductors or simply ABC) are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together.....Aerial bundled cable - Wikipedia

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Originally Posted by BradC

I suppose on the flip side, in the old days the pits all flooded, so we're probably not worse off. Just feels that way.

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Geez, didn't the 'Joe Blakes' like the old pits! [bigsmile]

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Originally Posted by Saitch;[URL="tel:3243421"

3243421[/URL]]Geez, didn't the 'Joe Blakes' like the old pits! [bigsmile]

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Prolly still do.

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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

For this sort of reason I think most low voltage overhead cables should go underground or at the very least be replaced with ABC's.....Aerial bundled cables (also aerial bundled conductors or simply ABC) are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together.....Aerial bundled cable - Wikipedia

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Their subdivision is all underground, but they still lost power. And I'm not sure that ABC instead of separate wires fares any better when a 15m eucalypt is blown across it. And I suspect that in this case the damaged power lines were probably not the low voltage ones.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Their subdivision is all underground, but they still lost power. And I'm not sure that ABC instead of separate wires fares any better when a 15m eucalypt is blown across it. And I suspect that in this case the damaged power lines were probably not the low voltage ones.

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ABC's are made for medium voltages as well, so the common distribution voltages found in suburbs such as 11 20.5 and 22 thousand volts.A lot of outages are due to , bats, birds, possums and branches brushing against lines in wind, the insulation of ABC's prevents a detrimental result for power supply and the broader flora and fauna if they cause a bushfire. Small trees or branches falling or resting on the lines are enough to take them out of service without taking them down.

Went to the shops this week and had to buy toilet paper even though I didn't need any, so I don't look like a hoarder.

This weekend, I went to check on my favourite short drive dirt road, and it had a sign saying " road damaged 4wd only seek alt. route. " It wasn't too bad, probably would have stopped a car in a sand drift at one creek, and another creek would've been interesting for the first user as it had a 1m tall sand bank that people have cut through. Also, it could damage car tyres, wheels, and suspension due to potholes and ruts.