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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham

Any one else still without electric?

It's quite thought provoking how much we actually rely on electric. Don't fully realise until there's a power cut.

Here's the government pushing for electric vehicles? What will happen in a power cut then?

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham

Have to say the local community have been fabulous in providing free hot food and drinks. The community really pulls together and is incredibly heart warming.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon "

Yes it is. Been told it's a possibility that we may be having pot noodle for Christmas dinner. That's something to look forward to

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By *entleman JackMan
over a year ago

Loughborough

Get used to it..... the days of constant power on demand are about to come to an end. The green party and our government are hell bent on closing conventional power stations, and relying on solar and wind energy. In the future, you ill be lucky to have power for a few hours each day, if at all!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon

Yes it is. Been told it's a possibility that we may be having pot noodle for Christmas dinner. That's something to look forward to "

Oh god surely not

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Get used to it..... the days of constant power on demand are about to come to an end. The green party and our government are hell bent on closing conventional power stations, and relying on solar and wind energy. In the future, you ill be lucky to have power for a few hours each day, if at all! "

The government have blinkers on.

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon

Yes it is. Been told it's a possibility that we may be having pot noodle for Christmas dinner. That's something to look forward to

Oh god surely not "

Is that an invite to yours?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon

Yes it is. Been told it's a possibility that we may be having pot noodle for Christmas dinner. That's something to look forward to

Oh god surely not

Is that an invite to yours? "

More the merrier

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

With more and more people relying on electronic devices to perform day to day things like banking, EV’s, heating. People won’t be able to function without electricity & an internet connection.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Get used to it..... the days of constant power on demand are about to come to an end. The green party and our government are hell bent on closing conventional power stations, and relying on solar and wind energy. In the future, you ill be lucky to have power for a few hours each day, if at all!

The government have blinkers on."

Elysium. Not so far fetched now is it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any one else still without electric?

It's quite thought provoking how much we actually rely on electric. Don't fully realise until there's a power cut.

Here's the government pushing for electric vehicles? What will happen in a power cut then?"

Fancy a cuddle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs

Sickening to see the political class obsessing about parties 12 months ago while such a large part of the country is without power

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln


"Get used to it..... the days of constant power on demand are about to come to an end. The green party and our government are hell bent on closing conventional power stations, and relying on solar and wind energy. In the future, you ill be lucky to have power for a few hours each day, if at all! "

Citation please?

That sucks OP but at least it sounds like you've got some lovely helpful people about

LvM

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend


"Any one else still without electric?

It's quite thought provoking how much we actually rely on electric. Don't fully realise until there's a power cut.

Here's the government pushing for electric vehicles? What will happen in a power cut then?"

you will have to really on someone with an old dirty diesel to rescue you

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs


"Get used to it..... the days of constant power on demand are about to come to an end. The green party and our government are hell bent on closing conventional power stations, and relying on solar and wind energy. In the future, you ill be lucky to have power for a few hours each day, if at all!

Citation please?

That sucks OP but at least it sounds like you've got some lovely helpful people about

LvM"

In what sense is a 'citation' needed? Deflection

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any one else still without electric?

It's quite thought provoking how much we actually rely on electric. Don't fully realise until there's a power cut.

Here's the government pushing for electric vehicles? What will happen in a power cut then?"

Have you been without electric since last Friday?

We have friends who lost theirs last Friday but it was back on Monday. Know there was another outage last night.

Hope you're getting the help you need. Heartbreaking watching how it's affecting people's lives on the news x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We went 4 days without electric. Wow that was a shock. Freezing cold, sat in the dark. The world suddenly became a very lonely place.

Hope you are sorted soon

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

Without being political or deflective .. I hope things are back to normal soon OP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gosh that’s a long time to go without is that 8 days?

That must be difficult, I feel for you fingers crossed it’s back on soon

Yes it is. Been told it's a possibility that we may be having pot noodle for Christmas dinner. That's something to look forward to "

How will you cook it?

Do you have another source of heating? I know how cold houses get with no heating. xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind. "

Texas recently?

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By *uck-RogersMan
over a year ago

Oakhill

Somewhere. Somebody could be stuck in a lift. ! They smell of piss at the best of times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Really hope you’re ok x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

Texas recently?"

Massive storms caused a break in the infrastructure. What's your point, buddy?

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

Texas recently?

Massive storms caused a break in the infrastructure. What's your point, buddy?"

So nothing to do with reducing traditional sources of energy?

You've been misled matey

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Down on the dungeness estate.. we're prone to power cuts quite regularly... every household has invested in a camping gas hot ring stove

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

Texas recently?

Massive storms caused a break in the infrastructure. What's your point, buddy?

So nothing to do with reducing traditional sources of energy?

You've been misled matey"

I'm confused. How has a massive storm taking out cables got anything to do with the source power?

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

Texas recently?

Massive storms caused a break in the infrastructure. What's your point, buddy?

So nothing to do with reducing traditional sources of energy?

You've been misled matey"

Texas is usually warm, from what I remember (this was actually last year I think), there was a short period where temps unexpectedly dropped to minus 10 or something causing outages. It was a 1 in 100 year event. Similar to the foods and fires seen in Germany, China, Australia and California. Nothing to do with reducing traditional sources. Snow was seen as I remember - Texas is hot.

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Any one else still without electric?

It's quite thought provoking how much we actually rely on electric. Don't fully realise until there's a power cut.

Here's the government pushing for electric vehicles? What will happen in a power cut then?

Have you been without electric since last Friday?

We have friends who lost theirs last Friday but it was back on Monday. Know there was another outage last night.

Hope you're getting the help you need. Heartbreaking watching how it's affecting people's lives on the news x"

Yes we have. Been told it could be weeks. Power lines are still down on the ground. We have sorted a generator as we have livestock that depends on electric. Powergrid refused to supply a generator which was ever so helpful of them

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind. "

We have a generator for the basic electric needs. We really feel for those who cant afford to buy a generator as powergrid/government haven't helped so far with us.

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By *drianukMan
over a year ago

Spain, Lancs


"Sorry to hear that OP! Who is charging your devices? Bless them. What would we do without out phones? Horrible to think how dependent we are as a society.

As for people who think green power is your enemy calm yourselves. You have as much chance of a break in the infrastructure whether the source power is coal nuclear or wind.

Texas recently?

Massive storms caused a break in the infrastructure. What's your point, buddy?

So nothing to do with reducing traditional sources of energy?

You've been misled matey

I'm confused. How has a massive storm taking out cables got anything to do with the source power? "

About a quarter of Texas's electricity now comes from 'wind turbines'.

Half of those turbines froze and produced no electricity. There was no back-up.

The UK will soon be similarly exposed. In Spain where I now live the concentration on windpower has led to extreme shortages of electricity and the cost of electricity has tripled this year.

You've been lied to matey

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By *orthern Stars OP   Couple
over a year ago

Durham


"Really hope you’re ok x"

We are all ok thank you. I am very thankful of the generator which is getting us by. Enjoying the excuse for going out for meals, every cloud has a silver lining

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