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The Krink


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MIR Classic.

370M Indians swelter in heat after power fails

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_INDIA_POWER_OUTAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-30-08-12-48



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That's like the US and Canada and a few million more..... Snippy speculates that, at least a couple hundred million of them Indians, swelter in heat on days when the power is on.

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It doesn't seem to matter how hot it is you never see them sweat...
ever. Something I've always wondered about is the smells of a
crowded train station in India. Hope power gets restored soon.



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They've fixed it, all right:

Blackout: 600 million people without electricity after world's biggest ever power cut in India

The outage sparked travel chaos across the country with people evacuated from trains and hundreds of miners getting trapped in a mine

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/india-power-cut-600-million-1193258



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What Cy said.

 

India power cut hits millions, among world's worst outages

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uk-india-blackout-idUSLNE86U01G20120731

 

Indians sweat and seethe over power failure

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/indians-sweat-seethe-over-power-failure-144128882.html



-- Edited by The Krink on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 11:29:17 PM

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