mich2/5/04 8:08
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Now, I only have mains electricity here ( overhead) and it will go out
often. That can be a problem ( especially when some stupid teenager had
driven into the electric sub station and taken out all the electric cables
for miles around - and that has happened to me!).
However, if you live the lifestyle , you expect the cuts and you ahve the
equipment to deal with it.
Its called living.



But not if you have a seriously ill, injured child, teenager, adult at your
door, under your care. Then its potential name is death.
In *this* century most of us would hope to be able to do something to help
such a person.
I'm surprised you accept mains electricity, in fact. A teenager drove into
a substation, taking out the LX for miles around but it happened to YOU.
Only YOU? What - do you suppose - it would have done to someone who was on
a ventilator - but perhaps that's 'living' to you and what the rest of us
would call 'dying'.

Anyone with half a crown's worth of common sense is going to be able to be
in touch with the emergency services at the very least. Here, in Devon, in
some parts of Dartmoor, people have map co-ordinates handy to give to e.g.
fire and ambulance because people are in a panic, a state, a fury of despair
when they have to contact such services. Imagine if they can't contact them
at all but have to watch someone die because they're proud their mobile
'phone doesn't work....and it's all they have. Good thinking. Not.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)