[madaxe_again]

It’s wild how different experiences can be of the same thing - we didn’t even realise anything was amiss until we went to pick our kid up from kindergarten, and everyone was stood around on the streets looking a bit lost.

We live off grid - independent power supply, starlink, no cell reception in our valley, EV charged off the panels. Just another day.

Worryingly, after about four hours of power cut the local town had already run out of water (they pump up to a relatively small (100m3) holding tank), so we donated our stash in the car to the kindergarten for the kids staying later.

No run on the banks here though - we are super rural and pretty much everyone keeps wads of cash (land deals etc. are almost always done with the official bit and the under the table bit) and has a full pantry at home.