When the Cheshire emerges...

I thought I hadn't turned them on. But I had. And I had no power. I found out it was spread throughout Darwin and as far as Katherine.

And then my dilemma: my fresh groceries from last night, and food. I (now realise stupidly) opened my fridge and freezer for a little bit trying to figure out what I could use/save.

I opened the fresh milk for my cereal breakfast, it was still cold enough. Then I realised what the most prominent thing to salvage was.

And with that, I managed to get through about half of it. Half a litre of Belgian Chocolate goodness. Would have been more if I didn't eat the cereal surely, but nonetheless I did an alright job.

I'm close to going home for the day, and I'm scared to think that I may not be able to eat anything in my fridge now. I'll be applying for that $80 compensation they reckon I can get - my power was out for about 12 hours if you go by what suburbs were announced as restored. May have to do a Maccas run for dinner, but that's not terribly appealing. I'd rather cook anything worth salvaging.