This could be due to the storms London's been having today but it also underlines the importance of having private power companies in the civil society to prevent totalitarian governments cutting off supplies to political dissidents. That's something a sensitive subject with nations like China and north Korea and something I should probably leave until I have access to a larger keyboard and the ability to recharge my blackberry.
13:40 on 29/7/12.
Edited at around 14:20 on 29/7/12 to add: And We're Back!
Around 20 minutes ago - twenty minutes after I pointed out that a mere power-cut would have little to no impact on my activities - the electricity suddenly came back on. Of course it took me 20 minutes to tell you about this because upon arriving home to a house where nothing electrical was working in a street where nothing electrical was working my valve-era electrician father tried to turn on the PC and finding that it wasn't working decided it was a problem with the PC and started pulling it to pieces. On a related note there are reports of delays and disruption on the over-ground rail network into London Bridge due to lighting striking signals in the Crystal Palace area which is quite close to me. However this is one of those things that does just happen on the overground rail network and would have had absolutely no impact on domestic electricity supplies which are on a completely different system.
There are also reports of a similar power-cut affecting around 50 properties in the Stratford area of east London close to the Olympic park last night (28/7/12) at around 18:30. This was most probably a response to the discussion of climate change/global warming that was started by the Olympic opening ceremony. The British argument being that we couldn't possibly do anything about carbon emissions because it would mean having to turn all the lights off. That is of course nonsense because if the Stratford properties were part of the previous Labour government's "Domestic Solar Scheme" which sees private properties generate their own electricity from subsidised solar panels and small wind turbines it is unlikely they would have noticed the power-cut. The current British government is currently trying it's hardest to end this scheme although they are receiving stiff resistance from the courts.
14:35 on 29/7/12.
Edited at around 14:20 on 29/7/12 to add: And We're Back!
Around 20 minutes ago - twenty minutes after I pointed out that a mere power-cut would have little to no impact on my activities - the electricity suddenly came back on. Of course it took me 20 minutes to tell you about this because upon arriving home to a house where nothing electrical was working in a street where nothing electrical was working my valve-era electrician father tried to turn on the PC and finding that it wasn't working decided it was a problem with the PC and started pulling it to pieces. On a related note there are reports of delays and disruption on the over-ground rail network into London Bridge due to lighting striking signals in the Crystal Palace area which is quite close to me. However this is one of those things that does just happen on the overground rail network and would have had absolutely no impact on domestic electricity supplies which are on a completely different system.
There are also reports of a similar power-cut affecting around 50 properties in the Stratford area of east London close to the Olympic park last night (28/7/12) at around 18:30. This was most probably a response to the discussion of climate change/global warming that was started by the Olympic opening ceremony. The British argument being that we couldn't possibly do anything about carbon emissions because it would mean having to turn all the lights off. That is of course nonsense because if the Stratford properties were part of the previous Labour government's "Domestic Solar Scheme" which sees private properties generate their own electricity from subsidised solar panels and small wind turbines it is unlikely they would have noticed the power-cut. The current British government is currently trying it's hardest to end this scheme although they are receiving stiff resistance from the courts.
14:35 on 29/7/12.
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