Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:19:03 -0600, "modom (palindrome guy)"
> > wrote:
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>> Girl, you need to be someplace warm. Well, that's my first response.
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> Mine too. An old man just died somewhere in NYC or NJ cause his house
> was barely heated, if that.
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> Christine
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If you're referring to the one I'm thinking of, the electric company put
some kind of current-restricting device on his meter because he was
apparently about $1,000 in arrears in paying his electrical bill. The
article I read alleges that no one at the utility explained to him how
this works, with the result that he continued to use electricity as he
always had, reached the limit, and the whole works shut down, leaving
him without heat. The poor guy was found wearing multiple layers of
clothing and covered in as many blankets as he owned, but it wasn't enough.