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Miraz Jordan

I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, and strive to be an actively decent human being. In 2025 I expect to move to Ruakākā near Whangārei. Apparently the bizarre is normal now. Almost 70, I'm super happy to be getting old — it means I'm not dead yet! Proudly a Free Being, eschewing the arbitrary. 100% human (she / her). I joined the MB community on 05 January 2018. Follow me on Micro.Blog at https://micro.blog/miraz .

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14 June 2022 ∞

Whew. After 18.75 hours power has been restored. Now charging all the things. 😀 And looking into @jean’s suggestion of a portable power station like this one: YETI 200X Portable Power Station - Goal Zero New Zealand

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Roger Wm. Bennett

Right in the city, we've had enough outages in our 25 years here that we put in a generator — natural gas-fired in our case. It doesn't power everything, but it keeps frozen food frozen, keeps us online, runs at least one television, etc.

2022-06-14 11:33 am
Cheri

Hooray!

2022-06-14 11:47 am
Miraz Jordan

@ReaderJohn One local guy, who until a few months ago was a registered electrician, wired his house so a generator would power the fridge and some other items if needed. This is the biggest outage we've ever had. They used to be frequent but these days tend to be occasional 'blips'. The storms of the last couple of weeks kept the lines guys super busy though and they had big trouble locating why our power was out.

2022-06-14 11:52 am
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran

Goodie-good! 🥳🎈

2022-06-14 1:17 pm
Jessica Smith

Glad you have power back!

2022-06-14 1:52 pm
James Stradling

18 hours is a very long time. Wow.

2022-06-14 2:12 pm
Miraz Jordan

@jstr It was! You go to turn on the light … nope; the tap … nope (our water's pumped from a rainwater tank).

2022-06-14 3:19 pm
Jean MacDonald

I like having mine. It's small, but at least I know I can get a few things up and running. The water pump sounds like a challenge.

2022-06-15 6:01 am
Miraz Jordan

@jean I just have lots of water stored in large bottles in the garage. In some super major disaster we could lower a bucket into our water tank I guess.

2022-06-15 6:31 am

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