Recovering from having no power!

We are just recovering from 5 days without any power - it has taken us three days to sort out the problems this left us with. We have for some time been placing plastic 2 litre bottles of water in our freezers and letting them freeze - this proved to be a wise decision as we lost nothing! Even our frozen fish was still frozen! We also covered the freezers with towels and blankets and did not open them unless we ran the generator.

Hope we will have power for some time now.

One of our neighbours had a tree fall onto her cables yesterday. this caused our lights to flicker and a number of explosions were heard. I went down the road to have a look but other than a smell of smoke could see nothing - and we still had power.