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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1975 on: February 13, 2024, 04:17:51 PM »
Outside mates place..
The tree scored 1 car under it.

Snapped up fairly high on that tree... looked like a solid bit of timber
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1976 on: February 13, 2024, 07:59:41 PM »
Have had power out since about 1700hrs. Powercorp (provider) says expected to be back on at about 0030 tomorrow. Watching online news seems to indicate that likely to take much, much longer to get power back to 0.5M homes across Vic. 39C and no aircon - damn.

Have the genny powered up running fridge, freezer, a couple of fans (still 30C here), Starlink and the computer.

Went up to the shed and fired up the HF, VHF/UHF (batteries) gear and nothing but static. Local VHF (VK3RCV) and UHF (VK3RGV - Linked system) repeaters are both down, so I suspect power is out on them as well.

Being in an all electric house sucks at times, and the Vic gov is demonising gas. Made up a cold chicken salad for dinner and bought the butane burner down to the house for a cuppa.

Hopefully mains will come back on in their predicted time frame, if not I suppose I will have to fire up a the other genny to power the tank pumps for water to the house.
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1977 on: February 13, 2024, 08:06:23 PM »
Carnage in the Hills. Couldn't even drive a 100mtrs before encountering a tree or fallen power line.
Had to drive a 60km round loop to get petrol.
Running generator powering the essentials, including the septic system.
If we have power by the weekend, it'll be a miracle

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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1978 on: February 14, 2024, 07:37:30 AM »
Images on the telly this morning showing major transmission lines down, could be weeks before some back on the grid. Sadly looks like you may be in for a long haul.
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1979 on: February 14, 2024, 10:09:02 AM »
As many as 30 homes have been destroyed by the blaze burning in the Grampians National Park.  :'( :'( :'( :'(




Quote from: Pottsy on February 14, 2024, 07:37:30 AM
Images on the telly this morning showing major transmission lines down, could be weeks before some back on the grid. Sadly looks like you may be in for a long haul.
I thought they'd be stronger

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/massive-storm-could-zap-power-from-375000-home-for-days-if-not-weeks/news-story/aebb6050afc28afe42e0aef599fff09c
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1980 on: February 14, 2024, 11:17:53 AM »
We have total blackout. No comms, power. Just dropped the fridges and freezers off the the parents

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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1981 on: February 14, 2024, 05:10:32 PM »
Quote from: Bad Scott on February 14, 2024, 11:17:53 AM
We have total blackout. No comms, power. Just dropped the fridges and freezers off the the parents

Has the situation improved Scott??
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1982 on: February 14, 2024, 08:34:33 PM »
We had power returned at about 1500hrs today.

No real evident tree damage or anything at our place.
A friend who lives approx 6Km due north of us had windows blown out of the house, tree branches through other windows and the roof removed from on site business office. Power was out for her the same times as ours.
I noted lots of limbs down and quite a few reasonably large tree trunks (30 -35cm) snapped off about 3 - 5M up while driving into and around Bendigo.
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1983 on: February 15, 2024, 04:36:59 AM »
Quote from: GeoffA on February 14, 2024, 05:10:32 PM
Has the situation improved Scott??
No. Still a total blackout. Seeing eta 17th. All we need is some sort of communication restored. Power we can use generator. Local business White wolf Cafe was on aca last night. They make awesome coffee. We have shifted all fridge and freezer produce to my parents place yesterday. I videod the storm when it hit us at home. Will show on weekend

Edit. We have NBN working now. Still no eta for mobile network. Shops open but CASH only. Off to the local grog shop  ;D

Edit of the Edit. We got power and mobile services restored. A lot of homes around us ie next street, still have no power. Slowly working out exactly which line our power comes from, as it's definitely not the line out the front from previous times
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1984 on: February 15, 2024, 11:33:55 PM »
Now’s the time to go out in an EV. At least I always keep some fuel at home in J/cans,
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1985 on: February 16, 2024, 07:19:10 AM »
Quote from: Bad Scott on February 15, 2024, 04:36:59 AM
All we need is some sort of communication restored ... Still no eta for mobile network

2-way ???

Have a mate who's a 2-way radio tech in NNSW (he's in Murwillumbah but covers a decent area). Says that for several years people have been telling him to give it away as 2-ways are a thing of the past, nobody uses them anymore as everybody now has a mobile which is so much better etc etc etc. ::)

But then over the last 2-3 years he reckons he's been busier than the last 10-15! ;D

That's an amazing thing people have "found" ::) about 2-ways - all they need to run is a little bit of 12V power! You're not relying on 240V supply, external comms towers having power & so on!
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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1986 on: February 16, 2024, 07:25:44 AM »
Quote from: Fizzie on February 16, 2024, 07:19:10 AM
2-way ???

Have a mate who's a 2-way radio tech in NNSW (he's in Murwillumbah but covers a decent area). Says that for several years people have been telling him to give it away as 2-ways are a thing of the past, nobody uses them anymore as everybody now has a mobile which is so much better etc etc etc. ::)

But then over the last 2-3 years he reckons he's been busier than the last 10-15! ;D

That's an amazing thing people have "found" ::) about 2-ways - all they need to run is a little bit of 12V power! You're not relying on 240V supply, external comms towers having power & so on!
Don't forget cash is still king. Grog payments also works in them troubled times.

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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1987 on: February 20, 2024, 08:17:18 PM »
30mm in 30 mins, crazy rain, lots of lightning and thunder

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Re: Batten down the hatches Vic
« Reply #1988 on: February 21, 2024, 09:07:08 AM »
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30mm in 30 mins, crazy rain, lots of lightning and thunder

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