Helen Salisbury: What happens if the lights go out?

Power cuts were thrilling in the 1970s: the schools closed early, we cooked on a Primus stove, and stories were read to us by candlelight while we snuggled up around the coal fire. The adults around me kept any worries they had about the three day week under wraps, and we children had a ball.Now that I have to be the grown-up, there’s no excitement in the prospect of electricity outages. Somewhere I have a copy of our business continuity plan that’s designed for just such an eventuality, which I should find and read again. GP surgeries are totally dependent on electricity, and it’s difficult to imagine how we’d even start to work without it. The automatic doors wouldn’t open, the phones wouldn’t ring, and we’d be working in the dark, both literally and metaphorically. And don’t forget the fridges, currently full of vaccines against flu and covid, as well…
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