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    Power outage

    Woke up this morning much earlier than planned - feeling cold, ****** power is off - not just me whole street, apparently for 3 hours - some ****** doing some ****** work and either ****** up big time or it was always part of the plan to turn off power for whole street in early hours of Sunday.

    ******* ******!!!!

    This would have never happened in Soviet Union.

    #2
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Woke up this morning much earlier than planned - feeling cold, ****** power is off - not just me whole street, apparently for 3 hours - some ****** doing some ****** work and either ****** up big time or it was always part of the plan to turn off power for whole street in early hours of Sunday.

    ******* ******!!!!

    This would have never happened in Soviet Union.
    Exactly.

    Your house in Russia used paraffin.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #3
      Inconsistencies in the electrical supply grid are the hallmarks of a third world country

      We'd better get used to it...
      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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        #4
        Good thing I've got contingency plan that was immediately put to work

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          #5
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          Good thing I've got contingency plan that was immediately put to work
          What - you went back to sleep?
          How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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            #6
            Originally posted by Troll View Post
            What - you went back to sleep?
            Went to the office, I planned to do it later anyway - now I won't get my usual Sunday Roast Beef from good local pub and will have to use tulipy half price one next to our office.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Troll View Post
              What - you went back to sleep?
              No, he warmed up by other means -

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                #8
                One New Year’s morn, before I got hitched up with ex-mrs HAB, I awoke to find no power in the condo. The first think I thought was, ‘What on earth did I do last night to cause this?’ I was completely blotto the night before down the Sea View bar so I had this terrible feeling of guilt that I had done something silly. When I got up I immediately discovered that I could not wash, or have a cup of coffee. Also no computer, phone, radio, television, or air conditioning. It makes one realise just how dependant we are on that utility.

                I walked around the complex to discover nobody had any power. I still had this guilty feeling that it was all my fault though. So I went for a walk and found that most of our end of the island was without power. I went back home and went for a dip in the pool for a bit.

                By noon I was getting a bit fed up with it all, so I went down the bar again. As people turned up most had the same story, ‘I woke up this morning to find no power and wondered what I had done the night before to cause this’.
                How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Clippy View Post
                  No, he warmed up by other means -
                  Pressed naked against a slightly misted window his face contorted to look like Edvard Munch's The Scream!
                  What happens in General, stays in General.
                  You know what they say about assumptions!

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