On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:05:18 +0000, Russell Wallace
<russell.wallace.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Wildepad wrote:
>> There was a show recently (on History International?) about what might
>> happen in stages without human intervention. I only caught the first
>> few minutes of it, but it made sense in that those areas served by
>> hydroelectric plants might have electricity for a long time, while
>> other power plants would fail quickly (but whether the 'quickly' is
>> hours, days, or weeks, I don't know).
>
>There was a discussion on that - might have been on this newsgroup, I
>don't know - that indicated the timescale is hours to days.
>
>So in the timescale you're thinking of here, the power grid might or
>might not be still up, you can pick whichever works better for the plot.
I have a cute line about the lights, so they have to be on when he
first wakes up. :)
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