The benefits of modern civilisation
Thursday, August 28th, 2003 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanPrimarily 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.
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.
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Technology and Paranoia
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