Situation in Co Durham

[NorthernRaider]

A major power cut has affected the community of Sedgefield, all schools and businesses forced to close, but the point to note is being made on local radio and local forums most people now have electronically ignited central heating systems. So no leccy also means no central heating. Lots of pancking people in Sedgefield this AM

[uks]

No prblem here NR 4 inches of snow bittery cold just having homemade bread and homemade potatoe and leek soup cooked on the log burner lovely.

Hope your OK sitting back nice and warm with a smug grin on your face.

[BeardyMan]

Maybe you should contact the local radio stations and get them to remind people that if they are having an impromptu fire indoors to heat their house they MUST HAVE VENTILATION!

Or you could find a village of people taking their BBQ indoors to stay warm, and prompt killing themselves...

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Although there is an argument for natural selection...

[Tigs]

all the farm work done just the goats to milk later , roaring fire beef pie being made for dinner hot mug of tea in hand and the kids off trying to kill themselves sledging! life dont get much better

[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.

[Metroyeti]

A bet a part of you wants the power cut to last a week :p times like these make you laugh, had a freind in cramlinton who thought I was weird for telling her to get a torch, she had a powercut and couldnt find candles in the dark

[bigpaul]

bloody hell,my parents and their friends (war generation) never panicked like this, they just put on an extra jumper and got on with life, sheeple just make me sick.

[NorthernRaider]

(21 January 2013, 14:49)bigpaul Wrote: bloody hell,my parents and their friends (war generation) never panicked like this, they just put on an extra jumper and got on with life, sheeple just make me sick.

Aah yes but our parents still had coal fires or gas fires and coal bunkers at the bottom of the yard, gran always had candles in the pantry along with salted or other preserved grub todays wrinklies rely on meals on wheels, and the phones were powered by the phone line not the house supply. Socialism and the welfare state has eradicated our self reliance.

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Just walked the dog and seen the first and only inteligent sheep I have ever seen, as I got near the main drag I noticed a black faced wooly bugger use the drifting snow to get over the fence and it immediately took shelter in the covered in bus stop !!!, either that or its waiting for the X2 to take it to Durham ?

[bigpaul]

(21 January 2013, 14:57)NorthernRaider Wrote: Aah yes but our parents still had coal fires or gas fires and coal bunkers at the bottom of the yard, gran always had candles in the pantry along with salted or other preserved grub todays wrinklies rely on meals on wheels, and the phones were powered by the phone line not the house supply. Socialism and the welfare state has eradicated our self reliance.

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Just walked the dog and seen the first and only inteligent sheep I have ever seen, as I got near the main drag I noticed a black faced wooly bugger use the drifting snow to get over the fence and it immediately took shelter in the covered in bus stop !!!, either that or its waiting for the X2 to take it to Durham ?

oh yes, now we've got "smokeless zones" and we're not allowed to have wood burners, sheeple dont need pantries when they've got 24 hour supermarkets(until their empty..like in South Wales), as for your black faced wooly bugger, well animals have more sense than people!

[Lancsprepper]

Here in lancashire it has been snowing on and off for 2 days but the main road in my area is fine,it was gritted by a local tractor this morning.Is it just me or do rural/semi-rural areas still have some level of resillience left.