We had a power cut for a few hours a couple of weeks ago which drew attention to a few issues.Our digital phones wouldn't work but the old fashioned (before digital) ones did and as we had kept one of these, plugged in, we could dial out. I had thrown out the telephone directories because it had been years since we had looked at one - and of course I couldn't look up the emergency contact numbers by using the computer! Son has internet access on his mobile so that is where we got the number, and then the information, from.The contact message said the power was going to be off for several hours, so I rang an elderly neighbour with the information, and her digital phone died halfway through our conversation.As this was happening another neighbour came around to ask if I knew what was going on and could I sort out her her burglar alarm as it was ringing non stop (puh-leese! although I did *think* ladder and hammer as it was so noisy) ... the alarm and battery had probably not been serviced/changed for years.I took the phone number to my neighbour to find that they had been on an oxygen tank, which had cut out as soon as the power did. I took down a spare (old fashioned) phone and several calls later we had spare manual oxygen tanks out from behind a chair and an ambulance crew who kindly sorted out the mass of pipes and the pressure gauge (dial 1 to 8 and they settled on 3). Her cylinders are now all out and ready to use should this happen again.Link line had contacted her before her digital phone died and apparently the link works even when the digital phones have died.I realised that we have no heating if there is a power cut!
Sarah Felstead ● 5897d