Utilities

We've been without our phone since Wednesday of last week, and there no internet. It made me think, of which of the 'utilities' could we live without for a period of time?

Telephone – yes. Inconvienient but not critical.
Water – no!
Gas – maybe. Very inconvenient not to have gas as this means no heating, hot water or cooking.
Electricity – possibly. As long as the contents of the fridge were safe, we could live without electricity for a bit.

Makes you realise quite how relient you are on these things though, especially when compaired to 100 years ago. No phone, no electricity, gas only for the lighting and a single cold tap. We don't know how lucky we are really!

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