A cold dark winter...

Atlantic Dawn

Imagine the snow of 2010 with power outages, no heating and frozen pipes. Every house should have an emergency supply of 20 litres of drinking water to use.

Strumms

From a water point of view I buy it in bulk as I use gym and exercise at home regularly.

I’ve got around 25 litres of bottled water…in the storage room, may even add 5-10 to that…

bought a camping stove and a couple of spare gas canisters last power outage…

so I’ll be as good as I can be if shît hits the fan.

place has great insulation, got spare sleeping bags to stick into my bed too if needed…it won’t be…. fûck with the other one I might as well cut arm and legs out of it and wear it. If mr altruistic my Dad gets word though he’ll be up clearing me out of everything and anything spare for his sister 🫥

nullzero

At least the richest in our society will be suffering right along side us... Won't they?

New Home

A layer of that reflective thermal material someone mentioned before works very well under a fitted sheet as mattress cover. It would reflect your body heat.

What I'd like to know is, how do I turn off the water supply? I have no idea as to where the stop valve is or even if there is one inside the house. I'd better ask the neighbours and/or the landlord...

olestoepoke

I don't believe a word of it. Scaremongering softening us up for more energy price hikes. I saw in Italy thousands met and burned their electricity and gas bills. There's talk of over one million households refusing to pay their energy bills in the UK to protest. Energy companies are seeing record profits and yet we are all getting fleeced with increases. We are far too passive in this country.

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564728#Comment_119564728

I'm certain there's a few white walkers already hanging around Dublin.

The Continental Op

Something that gets forgotten now a days are blankets. Always handy to have if you are sitting around trying to keep warm. The modern plush polyester ones can be really warm but keep then away from open fires as they burn fairly quickly.

BorneTobyWilde

I'm sure many with be putting a magnet on their metre.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgKQihUEFA0

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wotzgoingon

You are all losers. I have a underground bunker ran off generators with 1000 gallons of fuel on standby. Should last me a while. Heating and lighting is ran off a jenny. I have tonnes of canned food. Enough sh*t roll to stock a large hospital.

You losers have not been preparing for this. I have for the past 25 years.

Vestiapx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566039#Comment_119566039

This

Manach

For those of us a certain age, the 70s and the winter of disconent still resonate, but that was in the time of the older traditional monocultural Ireland. In today's new and improved Ireland perhaps that glow of self-regard could be used as a fuel source?

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567123#Comment_119567123

^^^

Spanish Eyes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567123#Comment_119567123

Nice place that, the Russian Embassy on Orwell all the same.

Ubbquittious

Anyone thinking of getting an inverter make sure you test it on the things you want to run off it while you still have a chance to return it. You might think some or other 300w appliance will work grand with your 1000+ watt inverter but it might not work at all.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOC0XbwaIz4

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BorneTobyWilde

I actually think people are far more aware now, and will actually save electricity, I find myself doing things I normally would not, like turning things off when leaving a room, before I'd not do that, as electric was a fair price, so if we all reduce usage by being more aware we could actually maintain our current price.

mariaalice

Will climate change not compasate some what? I was on Banna beach recently 9pm swimming and a man commented its like bondi beach. Iv loads of turf and dry timber don't have a clothes dryer nor a microwave and try to live lightly so I might be grand.

thedart

50 shades of turf this winter.

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567582#Comment_119567582

That's just the jocks that it'll be too expensive to wash.

thedart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567602#Comment_119567602

We be rubbing ice cubes off them yet.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566054#Comment_119566054

I wouldn't buy a phone that doesn't have FM radio and a slot for a micro SD card and a torch.

Aldi had some head torches reduced to €2. They have a red light too so very very lower power mode.

And for a euro you can get some lighters so you can use the gas rings for heat when the electricity goes.

wotzgoingon

I'll just wear a few layers and wrap myself in a duvet if the electricity goes and there is no way to turn the heating on. If we do have black outs I'm not sure what I will do with myself. As I browse the internet or play computer games to pass the time.

I could also go for a drive and be scorched by the heater in the car but that would be an expensive way to pass the time. Well it always was but it is even more so now that petrol is so expensive.

thedart

Tog off and get the racing gear on.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567582#Comment_119567582

50 shades of hay more like. Turf won’t last with everyone buying.

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566659#Comment_119566659

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Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567741#Comment_119567741

I think you also need an antenna.

EOQRTL

Picked up a diesel generator there this week second hand. New ones are gone mad money.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566641#Comment_119566641

There is one little problem with that theory, we don’t own it. And the chances of any foreign power giving us some at low prices are not very likely. Still being out on a protest might keep you warmer that sitting at home in a cold house.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119566659#Comment_119566659

Sleeping bags are better. I think I must have spent have my student live in one back in the days, that and a pair of fingerless gloves.

Tonesjones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119565952#Comment_119565952

I found this product for 20 dollars in the US.

89 Euro for same light in Ireland

Is there anything we don't get fleeced for

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567123#Comment_119567123

Well I actually have a bunker in my house - all Swiss houses must have one, but it’s decommissioned at present. We have been allocated space in a bigger one up the road instead. The country also has up to six months of essential goods stockpiled, which is regularly audited, even seedlings to sow after getting out of the bunker. bet you forgot the seedlings. So who’s the looser now ;-)

In seriousness I used to think they were OTT and indeed there was going to a vote on reducing it as unnecessary just before COVID came along. The biggest challenge was finding the bodies to get it all out of storage and distributed. Now it doesn’t seem like a bad idea after all.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567238#Comment_119567238

This is true which is why research is needed. the motorhome and camping people seem to be well up on this. Size of battery and alternator output (if hooked up to a running vehicle) are factors as are the type of devices you wish to power. A 500 watt heater might be ok while a 100 watt fridge or pump might not be due to the reactive power needed on starting. i've pulled these figures out of my arse as possible examples, could be way off.

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568131#Comment_119568131

Recently gifts sent from the USA and Canada have incurred large customs charges for the recipient. The officials blame the war in Ukraine.

Subzero3

Hypothetically what will it do for the cannabis growing industry.

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568182#Comment_119568182

It will go up in smoke.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568131#Comment_119568131

I got them for €30. Keep looking.

Tonesjones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568241#Comment_119568241

I can't seem to find anything with that quality and rechargeable

There is a Varta model but it is battery powered non rechargeable

I'd like to get something and leave it with the elderly parents.

As it gets closer to winter I think more and more people will start to buy similar so want to find something soon

You guys are early movers

moceri

https://youtu.be/wzu1ToAxdFk

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568103#Comment_119568103

Depends what you are doing, any moving around and a sleeping bag starts to be a pain. Much easier to throw a blanket over your legs and one over your shoulders if its really cold.

New Home

Hats and leg warmers help a lot, too,

bad2thebone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564724#Comment_119564724

I hear you, but candle light is good for chilling out. I find LEDs stimulate me more in the evening time I wonder can one get leds with a dim I'm sure it's possible, but both are good for lighting up a room. It's great to have the options.

The Continental Op

Candles can be stored away and forgotten about for years. Candles bought 20 years ago will still be fine in another 20 years. You can't say that of the batteries that power a LED light.

Now I'd have both. What I recommend are a few hundred night lights stored in a plastic bag with a couple of boxes of matches and a lighter so you can light them if needed. Then you need a headlamp for everyone moving around the house, there are some good cheap rechargeable ones on Amazon. Then for area lights I have the lantern fittings for my DeWalt XR system - I've six 4 and 5 Amp 18V XR batteries and two lanterns that they power, I tend to keep most of the batteries charged so thats around 24 hours of light from each lantern between charges.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119565337#Comment_119565337

My broadband is supplied by a fibre to roadside cabinet connection and then copper pair to the house. From previous experience, that particular internet infrastructure stays up, when the lights go out - as does the physical analogue phone landline that is included with it.

SnuggyBear

I'll just go to bed

Feisar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119564748#Comment_119564748

I've a shed full of it, he's more than welcome to attempt to have my family sitting in the cold.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568080#Comment_119568080

Most of the earphones that come with mobile phones and portable radios and Walkmans back to the 1980's and before are about 75cm long because that makes a handy quarter wave antenna for FM.

A well charged phone with radio, torch, some music or ebooks or pdf's or videos is good thing to have. Music drains the battery least because using the display or light takes more power.

All the stuff about candles and earthenware pot or the low power heaters is just marketing. They won't produce the same amount of heat as a proper heater. Thermodynamics can be a bitch. Might be OK in a small volume but won't heat a room. Fan heaters can be good as you can direct the heat to the only thing that matters, you. But use the thermostat.

Nickla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119568307#Comment_119568307

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0777BH1CF/ref%3Dppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08M93L215/ref%3Dppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07WDWCP52/ref%3Dppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have these and find them great - i leave the solar powered lamp and the radio on the window sill and they get some charge even through the window. I've only charged the radio twice and i use it a lot. I think its nice to have a radio if the power goes and you can also use all of these items to charge your phone if stuck. The radio also works off AA batteries and has a torch.

The Continental Op

Amazon have a range of headlamps like this for around €20

They are a bit cheap but they work OK. At that price you don't get a 5V charger with them only a charger lead.

lumphammer2

People need to get wise regarding what they are asked to fund via over priced bills:

Our Sponsorships | Bord Gáis Energy (bordgaisenergy.ie)

Our sponsorships | Electric Ireland

SSE Airtricity: Sponsorship

You can be sure all of this adds to the costs and that a lot of this is not something people are interested in. Should Electric Picnic or the GAA be funded by us when we have no say in the matter? If these companies must sponsor things then get them to ask if people are interested in sponsoring but not upping prices to sponsor ....

As well as this all that advertising needs to stop. We all know full well about these companies and can go to their websites. A holy load of money squandered on film like ads ...

Finally there are massive salaries and waste in these companies too ...

It is time these companies get back to basics and it most certainly is time the people are not suffering from power cuts, price hikes, etc. to fund their elitism. People should refuse to pay them any more than they think is fair/what they think is the price of the service ...