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Dang hit enter too early<BR>
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On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 10:15 +1000, Noel Butler wrote:<BR>
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On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 22:47 +1000, James Hodgkinson wrote: <BR>
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I don't know of any houses in my circle of friends/family that have a "landline" phone that'd last past the first power outage, with portable phones being the choice du jour these days... <BR>
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So, your landlines die after an hour of power outage now? find that hard to believe... sniff sniff, yes, troll day appears to have come early this week..<BR>
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and as for portable, how many old folk (70/80+) run around living on their mobiles. SFA thats how many. <BR>
just because the average person and their inner circles here live on the things, dont assume the rest of the population does as well.<BR>
and the elderly are the MOST and highest "at risk" from this change.<BR>
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Up around where I live, Bribie Island, there is a high proportion of elderly people, a good summer storm can often see power outages from an hour to six hours, I really hope none of them gets pains in the chest after the four hour mark, if a few pass away, might make for a rather interesting law suite.<BR>
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cheers<BR>
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