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Primarily electrickery.

Just had a 30 minute power cut which I believe, took out most of South London. Happily for me, other than having to root around for candles (it's amazingly dark for the time of day - leaden rain clouds will do that) and more recently having to wait while the PC scan-disked and all that, nothing more than petty annoyance.

It seems, however, that the power outage mangled the Tube and train system.

Glad am I that I left work early. A load of poor buggers will have been caught crowded in the Tube system during the rush hour in pitch blackness for half an hour.

Civilisation, eh?

The thickness of a fuse.

Re: Oh, Dear.

Date: 2003-08-28 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleonions.livejournal.com
Big cities seem to be having power problems of late. Now to get totally on the conspiracy bus and having just heard kenny boy say it was going to take another hour at least to get peeps off the underground trains...I was just thinking, now would be a very bad time to release poison gas down there...or in fact crash a big plane into a building...cheerful aint I.

Re: Oh, Dear.

Date: 2003-08-28 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainweasel.livejournal.com
...or just Claim to have done such a thing... I'd hate to think of the stampede of panicing people in a pitch black tunnel if someone started screaming "Gas!"

Re: Oh, Dear.

Date: 2003-08-29 03:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleonions.livejournal.com
oh yeah, that would not be good...

Re: Oh, Dear.

Date: 2003-08-29 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainweasel.livejournal.com
indeed - remind me never to tell you my terror clowns with fire extinguishers plot...

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