{"id":203,"date":"2006-02-18T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-02-18T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T01:59:57","slug":"power-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Power failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It began on dusk with a bang &#8211; two bangs in fact &#8211; and all the lights went out and the computer was silent. We unplugged the computer and I checked the power board &#8211; nothing tripped out. By then we could hear our neighbours in the street and we went outside to join them. &#8220;Whatever it was took out at least two transformers&#8221; said one, pointing up the street and over the back fence. I hoped it wasn&#8217;t a car accident. We checked that someone had phoned the power company, and then decided to take a dusk stroll &#8211; there wasn&#8217;t much we could do inside. Our neighbours set about transferring their dinner preparations to the barbeque. <\/p>\n<p>Just one street over we saw the problem &#8211; an unfortunate cockatoo. There are not many birds large enough to bridge between two power wires, but this one was.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/cocky1.jpg' alt='cockatoo' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/cocky2.jpg' alt='cockatoo' \/><\/p>\n<p>Within half an hour the power company truck arrived and the young engineer set about isolating the power to that pole using a long extendable hook on a PVC plastic tube. A further half hour and the lights were back on to the cheers of the neighbours.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/newtrees.jpg' alt='New tree planting' \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime we explored the old forest area &#8211; and noted the new growth of triangular plastic bags! On closer inspection it turned out that these were new trees planted to provide a shade corridor for the migration of wildlife. We knew then that it was not about to be infilled with houses. We also met another of our fire-affected neighbours and discussed the recovery process in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It began on dusk with a bang &#8211; two bangs in fact &#8211; and all the lights went out and the computer was silent. We unplugged the computer and I checked the power board &#8211; nothing tripped out. By then we could hear our neighbours in the street and we went outside to join them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}