Power shortages could leave you with blank TVs and computers

[wendy]

National Grid warns of 'brown-outs' in supplies to prevent potential total black-outs

National Grid may have to reduce power to homes to prevent black-outs
The first brown-out could come within ten days, leaving TV screens blank
Comes after older power stations have been shut and not been replaced

By Peter Campbell City Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Published: 00:59, 16 October 2015 | Updated: 05:56, 16 October 2015

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3ok79k99l

[maureenho]

[annie]

I hated the power cuts in the 80s, we are going backwards

[wendy]

the more I get older I am realizing that things do come and go, I bet we go back to bad times to make us appreciate the good.
Because when we had the good times. I expect people still moaned.
Even now our times are good compared to a 3rd world country.
What is happening is life, and it makes me want to emigrate to a little island somewhere.

[chenrezig]

That takes me back to the old power cuts in the 1970's... sitting by a coal fire playing droughts or monopoly ... Mum mkaing toast on the coal fire ..

[wendy]

I remember feeding Ross as a baby by candle light.