Re: Waking up displaced

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:24:24 +0000, Russell Wallace
<russell.wallace.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Wildepad wrote:
>> I have a cute line about the lights, so they have to be on when he
>> first wakes up. :)
>
>Somebody might have turned on the hospital's emergency generator before 
>they hit the sack. Or it might have turned on automatically when the 
>grid failed - do hospital generators do that?

Wow -- talk about a blindspot. Forty years ago I helped install two of
those systems, but now I completely blanked on the possibility that
the hospital would have power but most of the rest of the city
wouldn't.

The systems I know about do kick on automatically when there's a power
failure.
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