We Need More Power Scotty.......

The Engines can't take it Jim!
Oh, Wait a minute, here's a useful box of tricks.

This lorry back houses a huge generator that fed the whole island with electricity for a couple of days.
All the isles here are fed by an interconnected under sea power cable which failed at 4am one morning, incredibly, by 9pm we were all powered up again.
The emergency response team had the task of getting four of these from the top of Scotland and out to the islands, that's a long road trip and two separate ferry journeys but they did it!

Hats off to them......

The fault was first thought to have been caused by a cruise liner snagging the cable with it's anchor, but luckily, this was not the case. It turned out to be a land based fault that was quickly fixed and we are all back on the mains again. 

That cable's out there somewhere.

The tourism committee have put together a weekend of events on the island.

The "Stronsay Fest" the programme says it all!  Should be a good weekend.



Until next time.....................







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