Well, that was interesting, 20 hours without power. Main concern was the freezer, how long can that be without power before the ice cream is no longer edible? (Answers on a postcard to the wellknown address)
Also, engineer Jansen has an old iPhone, with a battery that was replaced a year ago. Since then the iPhone does not accurately know the battery percentage, and it will crash from 25% to 1% in 5 minutes, and then stay like that for hours, until it dies. If that happens you need to recalibrate your iPhone. That means: use it till the battery runs out completely, then recharge to 100%. Engineer Jansen was in that process at 14% battery when the powerout happened. The 1% period did not last hours, but just 15 minutes. So, recalibration was successful.
The (hybrid) car has a USB that can charge a phone. Ooh! Clever! Alas, when you leave the car, charging stops after 5 minutes.
He has learned that without internets there is a total news blackout, these days. If the americans had invaded Spain, he would not have noticed.
Power was out from noon till 5:30 the next morning. No internets or GSM. Internets were restored 3 hours later, GSM took another hour. Inconvenient, as engineer De Waal is currently visiting his mum, who turned 90.
It was less fun for Coco, too, who relies on electric light to go outside at night, and find her way back into the house. She got stuck outside twice, and needed rescuing using a LED lamp. Fortunately that was charged sufficiently.
Meanwhile engineer Jansen was lucky having his Kivi collection.
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