On Mon, 17 May 2004 at 15:49:42, Tony Walton
wrote:

Fair enough; how about if I'd been trying to report that my paralysed
Granny's ventilator[1] was down due to the power cut?

[1] No, not the one over the cooker.

Your supplier would have known about her, and her street would be one of
the very *last* to be cut off, and only if it absolutely had to. In an
accidental outage, some kind of alarm system would sound to get Granny
reconnected asap, and probably the local hospital would be alerted to go
and get her. Meanwhile, Granny would have battery back-up for her
respirator.

They aren't absolute fools; they only seem that way sometimes!
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Annabel Smyth
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