Originally Posted By +8Rich
Originally Posted By Stewart S
In our village of Croston in the North West of England we had at least 4 blackouts last week, each lasting around half an hour so I rang the National Grid helpline last night after another half an hour blackout and they gave me the reason for the power outages

Large numbers of migrating birds hitting power lines all this week

Do I believe it ? thinking



A friend of mine used to work for the Hydro Board in the Western Isles and he lost count of the Swans and Geese that used to get across the power lines - they would have to clear the remnants off the lines prior to restoration of the service.


We do get large flocks of geese coming overhead as we often hear them so maybe all true

The conspire theorist in me was beginning to think that the threats of rolling blackouts was being put to the test

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