Chapter 334 [Extra Story 8](1/2)
[Only released by Jinjiang Literature City]
In fact, it is not easy for H City to survive this time of power outage. The power systems of the cities that were first hit by typhoons and rainstorms basically collapsed within two or three days.
It is precisely because of the precedent that when other cities were hit by heavy rains and even hail and strong winds in the later period, some response mechanisms operated as fast as possible.
Disasters occur frequently, and for the people, the most important things are always those: electricity, signal networks, tap water and materials.
Especially in the first three things, each city has spent a lot of effort to protect. The official is very clear that no matter how much inspiring and encouraging remarks are posted on the Internet, it is not as good as maintaining an orderly and well-organized water, electricity and gas system.
In the eyes of the public, as long as there is water and electricity, and there is network signal, it means that the disaster is within a controllable range.
However, a large-scale and long-term disaster was like a huge wheel crushed. The power, which was already severely damaged by the hail attack, was finally cut off.
The power outage occurred late at night.
Because the temperature has dropped rapidly in the past two days, and the rain has invaded and attacked, the people who stayed at home and couldn't go anywhere always feel cold. Because there is no sunshine, the clothes cannot be washed and dried. Some families have bought clothes dryers, and at least they can still wear dry clothes. But there is really nothing they can do about quilts.
The heavy rain and wind began in late summer. Most people still slept at home and covered with thin blankets. Later, the temperature dropped all the way. When changing the bedding, people couldn't take out the quilts for the next year to dry. They were all used carelessly.
However, it rains every day, and the humidity in the air is very high. Over time, there is always a sensation of moisture on the quilt.
When the temperature drops to seven or eight degrees, everyone can't stand it when sleeping at night, especially those with elderly and children at home. They feel cold even if they don't turn on the air conditioner and cover them with a quilt.
Everyone didn't care about saving electricity and turned on the air conditioner one after another. Unfortunately, some people did not have protective covers on the outdoor units of the air conditioner. They were damaged early in the morning when hail came, so they couldn't turn on the air conditioner even if they wanted to turn on.
So, electric blankets, heaters, hot water bags... and even babies, all items that belong to winter are turned out, but most of these things need to be used for electricity. Once the power is out, the result can be imagined.
You Zheng was awakened by the cold. The air conditioner was turned on in the room, but it was still warm when she slept, but now the air conditioner on the wall was stopped. I don’t know when it stopped. There was a sense of coldness in the whole room.
You Zheng first reached out and touched Tianbao on the side of her lower body. In order to turn over and not affect her daughter, she put two quilts on it. Tianbao covered it with a thick and warm down quilt, with a blanket pressed on it, and a hot water bag was placed in the quilt. At this moment, she reached out to touch her and she was still warm.
She was not that afraid of the cold, and only covered her with a cloud quilt and did not fill her hot water bag. She felt cold on her body at this moment, and the temperature in the room seemed a little low.
She touched the remote control next to the pillow and pressed the hanger on the wall several times, but the air conditioner did not respond at all.
Could it be that the external unit is not supported and it is broken?
You Zheng was a little worried that under the current circumstances, the things at home really couldn't be broken, because once they were broken, no one could come to repair them. She went to touch the light, touched the light from three gears, from dark to light, but now she touched it again and again, but the light still didn't respond.
The lights are broken?
She suddenly became a little anxious, hurriedly got out of bed, took the thick cotton home clothes beside her and put them on, then took her cell phone and left the room.
She reached out to drive the lights in the corridor and living room, but nothing happened. She quickly realized something and stretched out and pulled open the refrigerator in the kitchen. The refrigerator did not light up, and her heart suddenly sank.
She turned on the flashlight on her phone and went to the next room to wake You Xi up.
You Xi slept soundly, just like her, she only covered her with a cloud quilt, but her body was warm, like a small stove.
"What's wrong, sister?"
“It seems like there is a power outage.”
**
There was indeed a power outage. Half an hour later, there were noises coming from residential buildings and all over the community. They were residents who were awakened by the cold while asleep.
Those who had a thermometer at home quickly came forward and looked at it. The room temperature was minus 2 degrees Celsius. It was just early October, and it turned into the cold winter month.
But even in the coldest winter months, the room temperature has never reached minus 2 degrees Celsius. Everyone always turns on the air conditioner and heater early. In addition, when the sun is sunny during the day, the temperature of the glass-topped sunroom can reach more than ten degrees, which is very warm and comfortable.
Now that the power is outage, I don’t know when it will be restored, how can this make people sleep?
While complaining about the ghost weather, everyone started to rummage through boxes and cabinets to get the quilt core, intending to add another quilt; some families immediately filled the elderly and children with hot water bags and let them hold them in their arms to keep warm; some people just slept in sweaters, and it was so cold that they didn’t have anything to pay attention to, and they were cold and sleepy in the middle of the night or woke up.
There are many people with big hearts, but there are more people with worry.
Ordinary power outage will be restored after a few hours. In this case, when will the power be restored?
Some people are afraid of the cold and huddled in the quilt to start surfing the Internet. Fortunately, although the power outage and the WIFI is gone, there is still a mobile network. The community residents are like a frying fire, and many information keeps appearing, asking about the power outage.
Someone has a wide range of social interactions and has added many residential groups in the community and unit groups, so they copied and forwarded various messages they saw in other groups.
Everyone soon learned that more than this community had power outages, but all the entire H City had power outages.
At present, there are only those more important public buildings and facilities that still have electricity, but the backup power supply starts to operate after the power outage, so the electricity comes, such as hospitals, public security bureaus, fire protection bureaus, some hotels, etc.
Hospitals generally have backup high-voltage power supply lines, which can ensure that one incoming power supply is tripped and another incoming power supply is used. In addition, hospitals have built large diesel generator rooms, which can generate self-power after a complete power outage.
The same is true for other public buildings. Diesel generator rooms are standard, but diesel generators need to rely on diesel to maintain them. The power output is definitely not the same as before. The areas with different functions in the building will be classified and power allocation will be made.
And once the diesel is exhausted, the power will still be cut off.
So, if this power outage is only a few hours or about a day, everyone can still hold on, but if it exceeds one or two days, it will be a little trouble.
Some people understand better and immediately distinguish the problem from these messages. They said in the group: "Generally, power outages are civilian power outages - similar to residential buildings like ours, there will be no power outages in places like hospitals because there are two power supply guarantees. The diesel generator room is the last backup power supply for the hospital. If the generator is used, the problem will be big..."
Among the many sorrowful speculations, some people expressed their incompatible gratitude: "Oh, fortunately our community is a high-end community. When I bought it, my husband thought the house price here was too expensive! Now I finally know that there is a reason for it to be expensive. Every building and villa here has a generator room, and a lot of diesel has been stocked up. Although power may be limited in the future, some high-power appliances cannot be used, it is still possible to turn on a light to charge your phone, and a heater with a smaller power can also be used. Otherwise, even the phone will be out of power, which is really unbearable..."
The speaker showed off intentionally or unintentionally, but he didn't know how many times he had copied and forwarded the words he said in the parent group. Soon, the name and address of the community were dug out.
There is nothing in a short-term power outage, but once the power cannot be restored, some things are hard to say.
In fact, looking at the entire H City, at home or in the community, there are more than one place with backup generators or backup generator rooms. It’s just that most people understand the principle of being low-key and being stable.
At this time, the wife who lives in a high-end community did not know that her unintentional show-off would bring me and people in the same community in the future.
**
You Xi, who also knows how to be low-key, is communicating and communicating with You Zheng at this moment. No matter how small the gasoline household generator is, it will be sound when it is turned on. You Zheng is not a person who can fool you. There is only one place at home. If You Xi secretly takes out some snacks, bottled water, tissues, and instant noodles, something small like this may be hidden.
If you want to use a generator, you will never be able to use such a saying that you have already bought it. Moreover, where does gasoline come from?
But You Xi didn't want to be able to maintain a living state, but she deliberately lived a hard life, so she finally decided to tell You Zheng about the whole thing.
The heat stroke during the military training period, after which she changed her body, the space she had inexplicably and the electronic watch that could perform daily lottery draws... She finished speaking in just ten minutes, and then sat in the living room with You Zheng staring at her big eyes. The flashlight on her phone was still lit up, which looked like a ghost movie scene at first glance.
"You Xi, aren't you awake yet? You dreamed? Why did you have such a beautiful dream?" You Zheng frowned and looked at her sister, touching her forehead with a look of worry, "It's not burning, don't make a fuss. Now in this situation outside, how can I take you to the hospital!"
"..." You Xi decided to do something cruel, so she pulled down the hand on her forehead and said to her, "Please look at your hand, sister--" As soon as she finished speaking, she turned the palm of the other person's hand upwards and then put a box of cake on it.
You Zheng:…!?
"You are not an illusion, this is a box of cakes. OK, now pay attention--" You Xi took the cake back into space again, "The cake is gone!"
You Zheng slid from the sofa to the floor with a thud.
"Sister-is it's okay, don't be dizzy!"
You Zheng barely supported her. She grabbed her sister's hand and slowly spoke: "Have you ever told others about this?"
"Of course not. I don't even dare to say such an incredible thing, who else can I tell you?" Almost as Yu Xi said this, several scenes suddenly flashed through her mind.
It seems that the same situation is the same. The oppression of survival surrounds her. She must let her relatives accept this incredible fact in a short period of time.
She has a space where she can hide items and carry large quantities of items that cannot be moved with her, thus ensuring that she and her relatives can survive the disaster...
But the relatives were worried that leaking the secret would be detrimental to her...
Who is it?
It must be the first time she has experienced these!
This inexplicable and strange sense of déjà vu has been seen before when he saw the scene of heavy rain, the scene of hail, the scene of star mist, the various large traffic accidents, and even the scum Yu Jun, a scumbag, and the little boy and the three of them were holding their backs...
But this time, this feeling was particularly strong. In addition to the sense of déjà vu, there was also a faint melancholy. It seemed that I had bid farewell to someone for a long time ago, left the person she liked and loved, and never met again...
What happened to those erratic and blurry pictures? Has she ever dreamed like this?
You Xi came to her senses in You Zheng's worried voice. She looked at You Zheng's anxious eyes and realized that this time she had been in a trance a little longer.
"It's okay, sister, I'm just sensing the things in the space." You Xi hurriedly comforted the other party.
"How many things are there in your space? You have been out in the rain for a while ago, by the way - and the time we went to the supermarket, you said you wanted to buy things for your classmates, aren't it all..."
You Xi nodded: "I'm sorry for cheating you at that time, but because I just found out that I had space, I was a little panicked and didn't know how to tell you. As for the things in my space, I can't say everything in everything, but we don't have to worry about supplies in a short period of time. Even if we are trapped here, we can live a good life without electricity or water."
You Xi said, while collecting and placing some things on the floor: fresh vegetables, eggs and milk, seafood and river...
You Zheng:...
Is this a magic trick?
You Zheng didn't sleep again that night. The two sisters first had to solve the room temperature problem. Since there was a generator and sufficient gasoline, You Zheng certainly didn't want to freeze her daughter. After all, even getting sick is a luxury in the current situation.
They discussed it and felt that the generator would definitely not be placed in the living room. After all, there is only a dining room between the living room and the main door. After opening the door, people outside will notice the generator if they pay a little attention.
So she finally decided to put the generator in Youxi's room. Her room was not big, and the bed in the room temporarily received space. She slept with You Zheng and his daughter in the evening. The bed was bought with the big one, 1.8 meters by two meters. It was more than enough to sleep with them two big ones and one small ones, and it was warm to sleep together at night.
It was unexpected that the door of this room was temporarily locked when Tianbao woke up during the day, and a small hole was dug at the bottom of the door panel to leave space for the wires.
In addition, although the noise of the gasoline generator is very small, it still has a little noise. It is not noticed during the day, but cannot be guaranteed at night.
So Youxi had bought some sound-absorbing cotton online before, and learned the online tutorials, pasted sound-absorbing cotton in the carton, and made a simple sound-absorbing cotton.
Now she took out the homemade soundproof box and covered it on the generator. After passing through the soundproof box and room door, she could basically completely reduce the noise to nothing.
Then, it is the use of some electrical appliances. After dark, the headlights cannot be turned on in the house. When all the stainless steel blinds are closed, the house can be made of table lamps or floor lamps that are not lit.
The TV can be turned on, but the volume must be turned off completely, the tablet can be turned down moderately, the phone can be turned on temporarily and vibrated. Of course, you must make a good agreement with Tianbao and never tell others about these things.
The air conditioner is definitely not available. Even if it rains, it cannot block the sound of the external unit. However, there are several heaters in Youxi space, and one living room and room is placed on at any time. It can effectively increase the room temperature and the clothes dried on the balcony are easy to dry.
After dealing with the electricity use, You Zheng came to the storage cabinet again and signaled You Xi to put away most of the things inside. Now she knew the existence of space. There was no need to place too many things at home. Anyway, the space can be used as you like, just avoid Tianbao's sight.
To be continued...