[meldrewreborn]

Recently shown again on BBC4 was the programme "Winterwatch, 1963 Big Freeze".

BBC Two - Winterwatch, 1963: The Big Freeze

It was unavailable on Iplayer for a while (why?) but its back now.

this gives you a flavour:

Winter of 1962–1963 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

We survived that then, without the facilities that we have now, obviously its not nice but we'll get through.

[Actual]

Originally Posted by meldrewreborn

Recently shown again on BBC4 was the programme "Winterwatch, 1963 Big Freeze".
We survived that then, without the facilities that we have now, obviously its not nice but we'll get through.

In the 1960's many homes had open coal fires and were not dependent on the continuous connection and availability of electricity and gas services.

Meters were just dials and didn't rely on a no signal available mobile phones to work. Customers with pay as you go gas and electric meters had to use real coins to feed the meter and no one was dependent on jammed telephone lines and unavailable online customer services "your call is important to us" teams to top up online accounts and load cards with virtual credits.

Come the zombie apocalypse and the breakdown of technology we will likely find that civilisation's has designed itself out of existence.

We are so dependent on technology and a major and prolonged power grid failure will mean no mobiles, no computers, no internet, no online payments, no shops, no fuel, no food. Doomed I tell ya.

[retrotecchie]

Originally Posted by Actual

In the 1960's many homes had open coal fires and were not dependent on the continuous connection and availability of electricity and gas services.

The same pretty much holds today in many parts of Wales...lots of folk round here use coal and oil, we don't have gas and our electricity supply can hardly be called 'continuous' 🤣🤣🤣