Jim Webster wrote:
"Oz" wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes
actually in area where they are dependent on pumping stations to get them
water, that might not be too silly. What use dry foods when there is no
water at the tap and no one has come round with standpipes?
snow is frozen water .....


but thaws awfully slowly if your only heat source is electricity in a power
cut.
The number of houses built with only electric and/or gas as power sources is
high enough to be worrying


And a big pan of snow only gets you a little pan of water.


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Jette Goldie

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