tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post2433480140183887406..comments2023-09-25T12:03:00.637+01:00Comments on Tom Morton's Beatcroft: Putting the rubbish out at 7.35am...schools shut, but the gritters have been out and the buses are running...the benefits of steam radioUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-42266849447443206712009-02-09T15:51:00.000+00:002009-02-09T15:51:00.000+00:00Steam Radio... love it!When the power goes out and...Steam Radio... love it!<BR/><BR/>When the power goes out and all the mobile phone cells drop when their batteries run out after a couple of days how do you communicate?<BR/><BR/>Thank the lord for community broadcast radio and amateur radio operators... are we the only ones who seem to think some sort of back up strategey (sp) using earlier generation technology would be appropriate?<BR/><BR/>A case of eggs, basket and cost accounting methinks! <BR/><BR/>"Nahhh we'll never get winters like we had in the sixties again, we've got global warming... besides it's no in this years budget so it cannae happen!"<BR/><BR/>Does anyone want to tell the poor wee loves that dependant on what you read most scientists say that as the world warms up we in this country actually are destined to get colder as the gulf stream beggars off south, our winters get more severe!Muttleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733010925971342427noreply@blogger.com