kel_89 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Didn't realise, until last night, that we were one of the few with hot water and a working gas oven in S6! Our boiler is too ancient to be digital and our gas cooker doesn't have a 'safety over ride' on the gas oven........ Yippee.... and to think we almost paid a small fortune to get the boiler changed last year ;-) Oof you jammy sods haha. My mate in Wadsley was without electricity for 36hrs, no hot water or anything! But hey, just gotta look at the devastation across the city to put stuff into perspective. We're lucky! Think, a few hours without power, or a fooked up home?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satman2222 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Upper upper Grenoside is STILL without power! It's never been back on since Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_partridge Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 S6 2** here, and our power came back on about 10 minutes ago having been off for nearly 2.5 hours since about 9:10 - which bears absolutely no resemblance to the chart on the electricity board website! Typically, it came on literally 2 minutes after I'd given up hope and gone to bed! We were also off for nearly 3 hours from 3:40 - 6:30ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 For those who have no idea about the post code references: http://www.ceelectricuk.com/page/power_rationing.cfm Find your postcode on the page to find out how powere cuts could affect you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kel_89 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 For those who have no idea about the post code references: http://www.ceelectricuk.com/page/power_rationing.cfm Find your postcode on the page to find out how powere cuts could affect you. Thanks for that pal. Looks like i'm going out between midday and three then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julado Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Can I ask a stupid question? Do ALL people in sheffield have to conserve electricity? or is it just the affected areas? I am assuming that it is all of sheffield but I'm not too sure? Spoke to someone at CE today to say that after having no electric for 32 hours I thought it was unfair to expect us to then have to have further cuts of three hours.....my reasoning was that there are other areas in sheffield, totley, dore and the like - the affluent areas that were not affected by the rain in the same way that are not included in the electric share....I was told it was to do with NATIONAL grid.....the clues are there I told her....NATIONAL...so pinch electric from other areas.....like the other side of sheffield. Lets face it, where I am on Winn Gardens the loss of electric would mean no hot water, no hot food and no lighting whereas I don't suppose it would mean much more than no jacuzzi to those who are burning brightly in their large homes. Apparently it doesn't work that way...perhaps NATIONAL grid is the wrong name for them...... And I was informed that S6 could possibly be off between 6am and 9am tomorrow morning..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAIRBOY Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 http://ceelectricuk.com/page/power_rationing.cfm This link shows postcodes which equates to your grid area and you can then look at the expected timings of disruption. It does say if your postcode isn't listed, then you are unlikely to be affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Spoke to someone at CE today to say that after having no electric for 32 hours I thought it was unfair to expect us to then have to have further cuts of three hours.....my reasoning was that there are other areas in sheffield, totley, dore and the like - the affluent areas that were not affected by the rain in the same way that are not included in the electric share....I was told it was to do with NATIONAL grid.....the clues are there I told her....NATIONAL...so pinch electric from other areas.....like the other side of sheffield. Lets face it, where I am on Winn Gardens the loss of electric would mean no hot water, no hot food and no lighting whereas I don't suppose it would mean much more than no jacuzzi to those who are burning brightly in their large homes. Apparently it doesn't work that way...perhaps NATIONAL grid is the wrong name for them...... And I was informed that S6 could possibly be off between 6am and 9am tomorrow morning..... Well, I'm still here. Switching power around the grid is one of those 'geeky' things that requires lots of very smart people pressing buttons at teh right time. I'm sure there are technical reasons why power can't be switched from the dryer areas to those that have been clobbered. Also, if the power cuts are to allow for repairs, turning Dore off when the fault is in Wadsley Bridge would be useless, and fatal for teh engineers concerned. Seriously - I'd assume that they know what they're doing and grin and bear it. I got my first good night's sleep in 3 days last night when we lost power, so there was a silver lining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEF5 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 North Walkley (the Hillsborough/Netto end) was off from 3pm till after midnight last night, which I was not impressed by. Surely we have a national grid and they can ship in power from elsewhere if the city has a shortage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky2006 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 how do you find the times of the power cut?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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