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UK Power Blackout
Hi Gray,
Thr French did get hit pretty hard by the heat. As I understand it – it was the very old and the infirm that suffered. Trouble is mate, we;re just not used to it. People do all the wrong things like laying out in it for hours on end – drinkin’ booze – or working hard physically without any fluids…
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more soon
mikethesign
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It’s like they say Gray,
Mad dogs and englishmen (frenchmen)go out in the midday sun. I look at it in the same way as if Perth got a cold snap down to -3 for a few weeks. It’d kill off a few here I ‘d bet. We’re set up for the heat, and they’re set up for the cold I guess. Tassies have to be set for both. 😆
I’m going back in December for three weeks…Leaving my summer and my pool and my barbeques every night to see my dear ol nan back in Blighty. Think how I’ll feel…I’ve been here for twenty two years… Scary Huh!
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First new York, now London gets blacked out.
I know the authorities are denying it – but I have to say I believe this is a terrorist action (computer virus) attack on our power supplies. The truth will come out eventually…
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I didn’t know anything thing about it until i got home last night and my husband said we had one.
didn’t affect me where i work though
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Related, yet not…. (and more for Phill anyway)
I just returned from a sign show that was held in Orlando, Florida here in the States (I taught a two day SignLab seminar). The show was over Saturday evening, but the wife and I stayed till Monday to take in some of the area sites. On Sunday evening, just before midnight, we had the “fortune” (???) of getting stuck on the “lift” (elevator) with a couple who live just outside of Glasgow. They had arrived Friday afternoon with about 13 others to enjoy two weeks of “holiday” in sunny Florida. Thankfully, having conversed with Mike the Sign somewhat often the past few months, and a few others from this board, I was able to speak “fluently” and understand what the heck they were saying. Not sure they could say the same for me, but we did have an enjoyable 45 minutes together none the less. I inquired if just be the slightest of chances they knew you Phill, but they did not. In fact, they hadn’t thought much about signs prior to being stuck in the lift.
(If I remember correctly, he is employed or connected with BT somehow.)So what’s the point? None really. I just want to make the statement that I spent 45 minutes in a lift between floors four and five of a six story building. We had lighting as the electric was fine, just an issue with the lift itself (although we did lose air conditioning
). I and everyone else in the lift remained calm, but to be stuck or trapped in a lift, the tube (subway), or any other similar place and to lose complete power, lights, A/C, and other stuff has got to be one scary situation. I kind of “thought” that before, but after being one step closer to the reality, I have no desire to actually experience it first hand. *****
quote :The truth will come out eventually…Just as a FYI…. I have it on good authority that there seems to be a major draw on electric for a certain location near Oxfordshire!! Anybody have any ideas what the mad scientist in that area is cooking up next?!?!
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I believe he’s working on a virtual reality multimedia sign designers course. It will feature total immersion holographic images to create the ultimate illusion of actually “being there” in the classroom with him. Beta testing of the new system is planned in the very near future but the first students haven’t actually been told (they think they’re going on a weekend training session , whilst he is planning a long weekend in Paris). The Holographic total immersion system which is currently under testing does use a lot of power – so there may be some truth in your theory Bob.
It’s only rumour though……
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Just learned how close the blackout was to me from a friend who lives but 5 minutes away. All her area was in darkness.
Thankfully I wasn’t affected as I was preparing a funeral service talk for Friday and spent practically all day on it till the wee hours of the morning.
Plus I had hundreds of programmes to print out for the funeral. So I was grateful that I wasn’t affected 😀 -
HAH!!! typical wimpy southern shandy drinkers, no power for a couple of hours and it makes international news, last winter we were without elastic trickery for 4 days, it was that bad I had to talk to the wife, 😉 big girls!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😉
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I’ll have you know Steve I’m a straight Southern Comfort guy, wi’ out nowt in it
Any road I were born in Hull!!! 😆 😆
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Even worse! a Yorkie aaaaaaargh !!!!!!!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😉
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av nowm me av ter wark forty mile wit 12foot ladders on mi back just ter alter opanin tymes on a bord fifty foot up int air and wark back wi em
thar dunt naw thars born darn int south yer all sissys
Steve Yorkshire born and bred and proud of itthar nars (>) 😀 😀 (-)
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