MADAM, On Friday, January 24, 2003 many properties in Eardisley village were without their electricity power supply from 9am, until 2.21pm - a total of five hours 21 minutes.
Aquila did in fact deliver post cards to the people who were to be 'cut off'. The reason for this major inconvenience was to enable a team of workmen to carry out tree trimming in safety. Nothing at all wrong with that, but this work should not have been necessary if the offending trees had been kept fully under control by their owners in the first instance.
To save all this work and trouble to others surely if one has trees in line of high voltage overhead power lines, it would not be too much trouble to keep them under control, and save unnecessary hours without power, especially during the cold, dark winter months.
Maybe lack of thought is to blame in many of these unfortunate cases. Local businesses lost customers and elderly people had to wait for a warm midday meal, all caused by over-grown trees.
JEAN SHARPLES
Church Road, Eardisley.
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