'Probably not' I hear you all shout :smile:
Had a bit of a do last Friday (13th). Flood warning for our village that evening and at 4pm we got the knock on the door advising us to leave the property as the tides (springtide and high tide) along with strong winds were going to be higher than expected.
Our evacuation muster point is the pub just up the road on higher ground.
Turned out the whole village was evacuated and the pub was bursting at the seams when we arrived. One of the great advantages of having a motorhome is that we could retire to the van in the car park away from all the chaos in the pub. Later that evening there was a power cut at the pub so everyone was sat there in darkness while we were in relative luxury in the van watching tv, I went out in the car and treated us to a Chinese take away as well.
Cut a long story short they wouldn't let us back to the village that night so we spent the night in the pub car park. Others less fortunate had to go to the nearby community centre where camp beds were provided.
Up on Saturday morning at about 6am and took the car back to the house, roads were open again and our house was ok (heaves sigh of relief), the garden was a bit of a mess and a small amount of water got into the garage but that was easily cleaned up over the next few days. Two houses on the sea front and one house next door but one to us were less lucky and their properties will have to be refurbished (been there, got that t-shirt in 2013).
Sunday night, back to normal, surfing the web and pop, down goes the phone and internet, not sure if it was flood related but contacted BT Monday morning and they said it would take up to 4 days to fix as it was a 'network' fault whatever that means. Thursday and still no line, back to BT again and they said expect to be down maybe until Sat pm, wasn't happy about that but what can you do. Thursday PM a BT van arrived and set about fixing the fault, finally connecting us this morning about 9am.
So that's why I've been missing for a few days.
Finally, two things on reflection, 1 - Boy. am I glad we own a motorhome and 2 - You just don't realise how much you rely on the internet until you're without it.
Pete
Had a bit of a do last Friday (13th). Flood warning for our village that evening and at 4pm we got the knock on the door advising us to leave the property as the tides (springtide and high tide) along with strong winds were going to be higher than expected.
Our evacuation muster point is the pub just up the road on higher ground.
Turned out the whole village was evacuated and the pub was bursting at the seams when we arrived. One of the great advantages of having a motorhome is that we could retire to the van in the car park away from all the chaos in the pub. Later that evening there was a power cut at the pub so everyone was sat there in darkness while we were in relative luxury in the van watching tv, I went out in the car and treated us to a Chinese take away as well.
Cut a long story short they wouldn't let us back to the village that night so we spent the night in the pub car park. Others less fortunate had to go to the nearby community centre where camp beds were provided.
Up on Saturday morning at about 6am and took the car back to the house, roads were open again and our house was ok (heaves sigh of relief), the garden was a bit of a mess and a small amount of water got into the garage but that was easily cleaned up over the next few days. Two houses on the sea front and one house next door but one to us were less lucky and their properties will have to be refurbished (been there, got that t-shirt in 2013).
Sunday night, back to normal, surfing the web and pop, down goes the phone and internet, not sure if it was flood related but contacted BT Monday morning and they said it would take up to 4 days to fix as it was a 'network' fault whatever that means. Thursday and still no line, back to BT again and they said expect to be down maybe until Sat pm, wasn't happy about that but what can you do. Thursday PM a BT van arrived and set about fixing the fault, finally connecting us this morning about 9am.
So that's why I've been missing for a few days.
Finally, two things on reflection, 1 - Boy. am I glad we own a motorhome and 2 - You just don't realise how much you rely on the internet until you're without it.
Pete