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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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To: Mount Athos
Pitchforks might be a plus too.
To: Mount Athos
torch is brit speak for flashlight
“Aug 24, 2022 ยท Britain is importing no energy from Russia for the first time on record”
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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.)
To: Mount Athos
I know torches here means flashlights, but they should be stocking on torches, pitchforks, tar, and feathers for their politicians.
To: kosciusko51
And their Green “activists” (really a 5th column).
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:09:01 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Mount Athos
Better that they put those “torches” to good use....
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:09:08 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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.
To: Mount Athos
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?
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10/15/2022 10:09:40 AM PDT
by
SubMareener
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To: Mount Athos
Torches? Against F-15s?
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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.)
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.
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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)
To: Mount Athos
Why would Brits import electricity?
They pay/paid France to build nukes?
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:20:26 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:21:32 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Mount Athos
No solar panels or windmills.
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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. )
To: UnwashedPeasant
"Torches? Against F-15s?" How many torches?
How BIG is the mob?
How ANGRY is the mob?
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:30:13 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:30:48 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: Mount Athos
torch is brit speak for flashlight
Yes, but I like the mental image of the other kind of torch better.
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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.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
10/15/2022 10:35:51 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Trump /DeSantis)
To: SubMareener
Ok, I thought I had read all the instructions for home freeze-drying. Where does the vegetable oil come in?
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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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