Snow in the fuse box

We had a flurry of snow yesterday evening, a big enough flurry that it settled and that the world looked white - as it still does, early this morning.

Also big enough to cut our power a little later, resulting in the scene illustrated left, including illumination from a family heirloom, Messrs. Mag-Light and the flash on my telephone. Hierloom first on the scene, as it was to hand and BH knew where the matches were.

I think that the flash on my telephone must be a bit of a blunt instrument and the result does not capture the darkened scene very well. Perhaps you need to be a proper camera buff to be able to do that.

The power was restored about ten minutes later, but not before the friendly PowerGen computer had sent us a text and phoned us up with the information that that there appeared to be a problem with the power in an area which included our postcode, a problem which might be to do with water getting into old cables. With ten minutes scarcely being enough time to put a  man in the field, so we presume some problem which could be fixed or worked around remotely. Or maybe our rather too small number of power stations - building of new private stations nowhere near matching retirement of old public ones - could not cope with the surge of demand at an advertisement break in a popular program on the television - so there will be more of this to come. All this talk of water penetration being smoke screen. To think that we are supposed to be an advanced country.

PS: wine from that well known New Zealand house called 'Villa Maria', as sold by Wetherspoons.

Reference 1: http://www.villamaria.co.nz/.