Situation in Co Durham

[NorthernRaider]

Had to pick son up from school as the combined heating and lighting system failed ( 2 years old) got flagged down by a couple of old biddies who asked me if I knew when the power was coming back on cos they had no heat or light and were panicking. 2500 homes without power, temp minus 1, 40 mph winds, drifting snow. Kids loving it, sheeple shitting themselves. both bakeries are throwing out their goods they tried to bake this AM cos the ovens have gone off.
Oddly enough and its a good point but huge numbers of homes have cordless telephones that require a charger and electricty to work, so huge numbers of homes are also without phones as well as heat and light. Local hospitals back up genny working. Even this chippy is without power so no hot grub forthose folks today.
Looking at the perplexed faces wandering around or peering out of windows i reckon if the weather lasted a week and the power stayed off they would have to evac the village !!
Glad I dont live among the sheeple.

Wood burning roaring away.