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Looks bad! I haven’t seen much on hospitals / emergency services but I’ve more seen comments on travel - roads trains planes. Hope they can fix it and wonder what caused it.

Yes we camp occasionally so have a multitude of gas hobs bbqs and a portable log burner. Solar lights and power banks. Along with the stash of gas bottles, charcoal and logs for any of the food heating devices.

Could do with a few more tined foods however but do have a huge stock of cereals and snacks.

72 hours emergency supply is an EU wide objective. I live in the country (in Ireland) and always have at least that in case of weather-related emergencies, and am glad to see people being reminded of it.

www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/26/brussels-ask-eu-citizens-to-put-together-a-72-hour-emergency-kit-to-face-crises

@Azureshores the Heathrow thing is not odd at all. There was a fire at a substation that serves Heathrow so the mains power went out. Heathrow has power back up but cancelled all operations for safety reasons until the mains power came back.

National Grid felt Heathrow was being too cautious, Heathrow disagresled. TBH it is probably postioning by both sides in case of compension claims.

I'm in Portugal, our power came back on at midnight, but we had no phone or internet the whole time during the blackout. Our water is pumped with electricity so we had to pull some up from the well to flush toilets etc.

I do keep a three day emergency supply in at all times (it is actually recommended in Portugal due to the earthquake risk, though they don't publicise it as well as the Swedish government does), so we were fine. I have a solar / wind-up radio so could keep up with the news.

I am planning to install some solar battery storage soon, so hopefully if / when something like this happens again we'll have a bit of power.