On Friday 22 March 2013 08:27 harry wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Mar 22, 12:15 am, Bill wrote:
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harry writes

On Mar 21, 1:59 pm, Phil wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21878059

You need to make sure you can manage in your house without
electricity.
Most people's heating/cooking dependson it.

I'm almost looking forward to it!

I've not had a decent power cut since installing the 7KVA genny a few
years ago. It has had more test hours on it than real usage hours.

Probably a comment best for other news groups, but if it happens it will
be nice to be able to listen on HF without all the local PLT/PLA QRM
too. :-)

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Bill

Not actually that useful in a prolonged power cut.

In any event. if your lights are on and everyone elses are off, you
will become a hate figure.

Even if you have solar PV you become a hate figure to the jealous,
idle, stupid and incompetant.

Your PV is not going to work once the mains goes off.
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