The residents of Quairading are so used to power outages that whenever there is a spate of hot, windy or stormy weather they start preparing for a blackout.
“That is a mental trigger for me to go and make sure I’ve got petrol . . . because we could be out of power for four days and once the power goes out, we can’t get petrol in town,” Quairading grain farmer Tarnya Fraser told reporter Dylan Caporn when he visited the town of 582 people this week.
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