Well Kiwi,
I have come up with nothing.
Last night here we were just starting the meeting when all the power went off.
So that was Brian out of here.
The 3 66kV feeders that feed Ashburton all went out, the whole town, Tinwald, Fairton were all knocked out, street-lights and all.
Apparently a faulty cable termination caused it.
As we all know, when you lose a feed, the others tend to go out in sympathy, once the current builds up.
It was a nuisance, but at least Gordon had his Solar system fully charged and we could at least boil the kettle and have some light from his 12V fluoro lamps.