Power cuts in Wealdstone

Wealdstone has been hard hit by power outages in the last five days where there has been 3 blackouts recorded. This has left business people in the area reeling from losses encountered due to the power blackouts.

For instance some shops had to be closed after the electricity went off along High Street, Wealdstone, first on Saturday last week, then on Tuesday and then on Wednesday this week. Some shoppers had to turn back and take the business elsewhere.
He manager of Visioncare, Surekha Rughani, approximated the losses in her shop to be in the range of between eight hundred sterling pounds and one thousand sterling pounds. This is because she had to shut down her shop for 2 of the 3 days that the shortages occurred. She admitted that she had to cancel all appointments with her patients while the blackout lasted. Even worse the manager could not get an explanation when she called the electricity supplier.

A receptionist at Visioncare has had to calm down a lot of angry customers whose appointments had been cancelled and rescheduled.

The vice-chairperson of manager Wealdstone Traders’ Association and the manager of Pineapple Boutique, explained that most of the enterprises cannot open the shutters when there is no power and so they had to resort to the manual way of doing which takes close to half an hour.

A spokesperson for EDF Energy, the electricity supplier for the affected area sent out apologies for the power cuts. She attributed the power shortage to a fault with the underground cable.

www.edfenergy.com