There are electricity works in the street, so I have unreliable power. Looks like I'm going to have to take a day off :alice_party: #dayOff

I hope the electricity gets turned back on later so I can get my scooter out of the garage this arv. I have a doctor's appointment at 3pm #DayOff

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@SeaFury I know that unplanned electricity work does need to happen sometimes, but it always so weird to me. Where I live we have many on machines that live at home, every time you cut power they call the emergency number. Sending out an ambulance is very expensive, something the region* would gladly make the electricity company pay.

*I guess they would be called County in the US system.

@ekg If its an emergency then it can't be planned.... so they are aware. We don't pay for ambulances in my state (Tasmania)

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@SeaFury oh. The region pay for the ambulance, not the patient. Which is why I find it weird, they have literally no reason not to send the bill to electricity company if the region believed they where at fault.

Electricity companies still don't have strict liability in Sweden, but it trends in that direction. I would like to think they would do everything in their power to show they are acting in goodwill.

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@ekg Ah! I understand! The electricity company has these costs planned I think. When I lost power, it paid me money for every day it did not provide power.

@SeaFury that's nice, I think Swedish law say that they have to pay after six hours. Which is never going to happen. The longest power outage I have experience was minutes. And as power is declared a human right they can also ignore planing laws when restoring power. That is meant for disasters and war, but they would happily use it to protect their profits.

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