Power cuts are us!

Well, we had one almighty power cut here on Saturday evening. The power went off about 5, whilst I was at Tesco! Most bizarre, as they have their own emergency power, which kept coming on and off as the electricity flickered on and off for about 5 minutes! There was no power in the town centre at all, which made leaving Tesco difficult, as you just couldn't turn right because of the traffic. Detoured all the way round Bury to get to the Manna House, where we had a youth event due to start at 7.30. Cafe, full band, the works! Took them torches, but obviouslly no more setting up could be done in the darkness, incase it stayed dark! Contingency plans were in place for cancelling if the power didn't come on by a certain time, but it came on in time, so the set up went on! I went home, expecting the power to be on, and it wasn't! So Sheba and I sat in the gloom with some candles and torches. She kept trying to sniff them.... Steve phoned me about an hour later to say the power had gone off again and they were cancelling the event, and packing up what they could. The electricity helpline number was reporting faults in Bury, Radcliffe, Little Lever, Farnworth, Prestwich, Whitefield, Unsworth, Ramsbottom, Tottington and surrounding areas! Because of an underground cable fault they said! As someone said at church yesterday, you mean the cable under the sea that supplies everywhere!?! We got power at home about twenty to 8, although I left the candles burning for a while incase it went off! The Manna House got power just before the last person got picked up, which meant that there was still packing down to do before church yesterday morning!! All fun and games! And something to post about I guess! If I'd have been organised I could have taken dark and grainy photos of our house without electricity, and the Manna House, and posted them...... but obviously I didn't!