On 03/01/2018 17:40, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> So
> this release will have to wait until I'm plugged into the grid.
> 
> Unfortunately, no one seems to know when that will be.  I'm getting conflicting
> information from various sources that changes at least daily. 

How frustrating.

> I'm even told
> that I might well have already had electricity if it weren't for a ne'er-do-well
> neighbor who appears to be a copper thief.  In fact he was caught, in
> retrospect, in the act of cutting the very electrical line to my house, although
> witnesses appear not to have known what he was up to.
> 

Ah! memories of my childhood. Not that it was me that was doing the 
thieving. But I knew a few folk who got caught stealing lead off of 
church roofs. And it was only the big boys that tried to steal the 
copper busbars from unmanned distribution centres.



> It takes a very special kind of selfishness to screw your neighbors in the
> aftermath of a disaster.  This almost makes me wish that the utility had
> energized the line while he was in the act of cutting it, but that wouldn't be
> very nice, would it?
> 

It's not and you would have felt bad if it had happened.
It is appropriate though, but best kept a secret thought. ;)



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Regards
     Stephen

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