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Let us assume for a moment, that the electricity grid fails, for a long time.
Suddenly, those wall outlets are delivering no voltage and thus, no current flows, no power is delivered.
The contents of your freezer start to thaw.
Your smartphone complains about having a low battery -- but there's no way to recharge it.
No Netfix, no Disney+ and, once the batteries discharge, not even any radio.
Cooking only becomes possible while the BBQ still has some gas left in it and the luxury of hot water becomes just a memory.
Before you say "this could never happen", remember the five week long Auckland power crisis back in 1998.
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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