Power cut last night!

[The General]

Luckily i was over in SWF and got home just before 12 midnight and our house was fine by then but people at work this morning said there's only returned at 6pm this morning!!

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1932185.mostviewed.power_failure_in_shoebury.php

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Are the people who comment on these stories on the echo website for real....? :eek:

 

[Smiffy]

Just shows you how incapable we all are without our little luxuries..

Shame.

You wait until the tabloids ramp up a "Siberian Blast" next week..........

 

[canveyshrimper]

Are the people who comment on these stories on the echo website for real....? :eek:

Particularly the one who seemed to put the welfare of her tropical fish and snake over her two year old.:confused:

 

[The Big Shrimp]

I liked the comment "are you all scousers!!"

That said, my fridge has decided it doesn't want to work properly now!!:guns:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I like the way people commenting on it pretend that Thorpe Bay is a different area to Shoebury.

 

[MJ_WFC]

at 6pm this morning!!

:confused: :confused: :confused:

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Oh what a fun time that was, although luckily for me our power came back at 7.45pm which was a blessing as I have wife recovering from a Xmas Day bout of Flu and a two year old who is either got a bad cold or the flu. Did not need the extra issue of no power or heating.

 

[The General]

Ooooooo sorry for the typo!!

Some great comments on the site! What an odd bunch this Shoebury/Wakering/ "Thorpe Bay" lot are!!

Kev

 

[Babii G]

Luckily i was over in SWF and got home just before 12 midnight and our house was fine by then but people at work this morning said there's only returned at 6pm this morning!!

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1932185.mostviewed.power_failure_in_shoebury.php

we've had a power cut every night since christmas day

 

[mattytheshrimper]

its funny how people actually blame the suppliers for this sort of thing when it happens when its actually nothing to do with them. do they think the same supplier supplys the whole area? clearly not. its the distribution who are at fault yet people just can't seem to grasp this?

 

[MK Shrimper]

There's only one grid of underground cables and substations that feed your house REGARDLESS of who the "supplier" is. I'd imagine that some of these cables are nearly 30+ years old now and can't possibly cope with the increased load that's put on them.
Not to mention when some numpty cuts through one when digging. Happens all the time on the railway and we're left to pick up the pieces.