Power Cut

We had a power cut at work yesterday. Apparently about 3000 buildings in this area were affected.

The first things we noticed were

• no lights
• no network connection
  

closely followed by

• no coffee

which led to the decision to abandon the building.
Whereupon we discovered

• no power to open the underground carpark shutter door
• no lifts
• traffic lights outside not working
  

but the clincher was

• electrically operated flushes in the loos not working... yuck.
  

Thank goodness for battery-operated mobile phones and laptops.