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Blackout fears prompt Britons to buy generators and torches
Reuters ^ | OCT 14, 2022 | James Davey

Posted on 10/15/2022 10:05:39 AM PDT by Mount Athos

Britons are preparing for possible power cuts by stocking-up on portable generators and torches, in addition to winter clothing, thermal underwear and candles.

National Grid warned this month that Britain could face three-hour planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter if it cannot import electricity from Europe and struggles to attract enough imports to fuel gas-fired power plants.

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1 posted on 10/15/2022 10:05:39 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Pitchforks might be a plus too.


2 posted on 10/15/2022 10:06:10 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: Mount Athos

torch is brit speak for flashlight


3 posted on 10/15/2022 10:06:31 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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“Aug 24, 2022 ยท Britain is importing no energy from Russia for the first time on record”


4 posted on 10/15/2022 10:07:24 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Mount Athos

I know torches here means flashlights, but they should be stocking on torches, pitchforks, tar, and feathers for their politicians.


5 posted on 10/15/2022 10:07:54 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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And their Green “activists” (really a 5th column).


6 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:01 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mount Athos

Better that they put those “torches” to good use....


7 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:08 AM PDT by G Larry (Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: Mount Athos
They'll have to buy some flashlights so they can find the torches.

Britons are preparing for possible power cuts by stocking-up on portable generators and torches, in addition to winter clothing, thermal underwear and candles.

Holy carp! Warm clothing? For winter? I'll bet they've never done that before.

8 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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It turns out that one of the additional benefits of home freeze drying is that you end up with a lot of used vegetable oil that burns quite well in a hurricane lamp designed for kerosene. Who would have thunk it?


9 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:40 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Mount Athos
Torches? Against F-15s?


10 posted on 10/15/2022 10:11:39 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Mount Athos

Next week it’s calling for snow here in Western Pa. So it’ll be plenty cold enough over there I imagine.


11 posted on 10/15/2022 10:15:01 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Mount Athos

Why would Brits import electricity?

They pay/paid France to build nukes?


12 posted on 10/15/2022 10:20:26 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mount Athos

No pitchforks? Tar?


13 posted on 10/15/2022 10:21:32 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Mount Athos

No solar panels or windmills.


14 posted on 10/15/2022 10:22:49 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: UnwashedPeasant
"Torches? Against F-15s?"

How many torches?
How BIG is the mob?
How ANGRY is the mob?


15 posted on 10/15/2022 10:27:43 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Mount Athos

Blackout? That’s racist!


16 posted on 10/15/2022 10:30:13 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Mount Athos

Torches?? = flashlights


17 posted on 10/15/2022 10:30:48 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Mount Athos
torch is brit speak for flashlight

Yes, but I like the mental image of the other kind of torch better.
18 posted on 10/15/2022 10:34:08 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Beat me to it!


19 posted on 10/15/2022 10:35:51 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: SubMareener

Ok, I thought I had read all the instructions for home freeze-drying. Where does the vegetable oil come in?


20 posted on 10/15/2022 10:36:15 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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