In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
Not going to happen, most people are so used to just plugging
anything in anywhere and it working they get very confused if the
circuit trips. Was in the Dr's Surgery a while back and the power
tripped, came back then tripped again, rinse an repeat a few times.
Turns out the gas heating had packed in so they had half a dozen
electric heaters on...

There was a larger scale one in Luton some years back.
Major gas main failure cut off gas to a neighbourhood.
Gas company delivered electric heaters to all the houses.
An hour later, substation transformer burned out (ISTR
it exploded into flames).

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Andrew Gabriel
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