Edcrab
Veteran Incompetent
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That's right, an enormous horde of headcrab-wannabes have crossed the barriers of space and time and began a fullscale siege of my hometown. I call upon all people of military age to take up arms and repel the foul waves of Halo rejects-
Wait, wrong Flood. Ahem. Flood as in water, right...
So, I haven't had power for three days, and I'm even colder and more malnourished than the average Cumbrian. I also think my tarantulas need defrosting. They're used to a far hotter environment- damn you United Utilities!
Admittedly I've avoided the flood waters themselves (much of the City Centre ended up as a freakin' lake, and buses, as in double decker people carriers, were buffeted about by the torrents), but being without power annoyed the hell out of me, especially as its so damn common around here.
We get extreme whether fairly freqeuntly, and while coastal communities like Southport tend to have underground power lines (try and knock them over Nature!) we persist in having matchstick constructs strued about the place. Gah.
On top of it all the Willowhome sub-station itself was flooded- word of advice UU, it may be easier to maintain self-contained facilites that service entire swathes of the county but it sure as hell isn't convenient when it comes to trying to initiate repairs or pump the fetid water out of them...
So basically I've had to empty two freezers of ruined food, slowly warm frozen arachnids, help out elderly relatives left high and dry (well, the exact opposite really) by the severe conditions, and on top of it all it's looking unlikely that UU will be able to offer any decent compensation.
Yay for British weather. It makes you think- one "developed" town is crippled by a comparitively small attack of nature and struggles to recover- just think what's happening thousands of miles away at the hands of a natural disaster several hundred thousand times worse
Wait, wrong Flood. Ahem. Flood as in water, right...
So, I haven't had power for three days, and I'm even colder and more malnourished than the average Cumbrian. I also think my tarantulas need defrosting. They're used to a far hotter environment- damn you United Utilities!
Admittedly I've avoided the flood waters themselves (much of the City Centre ended up as a freakin' lake, and buses, as in double decker people carriers, were buffeted about by the torrents), but being without power annoyed the hell out of me, especially as its so damn common around here.
We get extreme whether fairly freqeuntly, and while coastal communities like Southport tend to have underground power lines (try and knock them over Nature!) we persist in having matchstick constructs strued about the place. Gah.
On top of it all the Willowhome sub-station itself was flooded- word of advice UU, it may be easier to maintain self-contained facilites that service entire swathes of the county but it sure as hell isn't convenient when it comes to trying to initiate repairs or pump the fetid water out of them...
So basically I've had to empty two freezers of ruined food, slowly warm frozen arachnids, help out elderly relatives left high and dry (well, the exact opposite really) by the severe conditions, and on top of it all it's looking unlikely that UU will be able to offer any decent compensation.
Yay for British weather. It makes you think- one "developed" town is crippled by a comparitively small attack of nature and struggles to recover- just think what's happening thousands of miles away at the hands of a natural disaster several hundred thousand times worse
