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The darkness never ends

Written by kevin

Yesterday showed me that I work for a company with the right priorities. When I arrived in the morning the power was still off after Sunday’s storms. The first priority was to wire up a generator so the phones would work, the next was to set up a generator outside reception to run the coffee machine.

I managed to head back into Cambridge, do my weekly shopping, eat lunch and watch the lunchtime news before the power came back on.

It’s a bit odd all the whinging in the UK media at the moment about how thousands of homes are still without power and the trains aren’t running properly. This was a very severe storm (for the UK, obviously), a lot of damage was done to infrastructure and several people were killed.

Government inquiries aren’t going to improve anything, apart from Government popularity ratings. These things happen sometimes, you just have to deal with it.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 29th, 2002 at 19:59 and is filed under other.

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