On 27/12/2013 23:27, Artic wrote:
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In listening to the reports of people without power for the last
couple of days am I alone in thinking that complaining about a
service with a 99.98% up-time reliability is a bit of a moan.

(Guessing that she's in her 50s, so she's had 5 days downtime in
20,000+ days.)

jgh


The power companies have cut down on repair staff and repair equipment.
WTF is going to invest £millions of off-road vehicles for them to be
used for a couple of days each year?
These ****wits in big houses out in the country without power in Surrey
all assume they are 1st on the list to be reconnected, now they're
learning it doesn't work like that. The power companies will
concentrate on getting the areas with denser population back on first.
As for the ****s living about 2ft above the Medway in Yalding. WTF do
they expect living on a floodplain that's flooded regularly for
thousands of years!

Living in, as was pointed out by a local councillor on Radio 4 earlier,
houses that were built over 100 years ago, so they have, presumab;y,
been flooded many times.

I've got a little sympathy for the owner of a trip boat on the Medway,
which somehow got trapped under another boat and is currently on the
bottom of the river waiting for another flood to lift the other boat
off, so the owner can then try to raise his boat. Or a crane to wander
by.... He did all *he* could to minimise his risk.

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Tciao for Now!

John.