On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)