Any hairdressers about? Where do i stand legally if...........

[HelenaDove]

there is a power cut while im having something done and im halfway through it e.g like a hair colour.

im asking because Storm Diana is imminent and i have an appointment booked this week.

Back in Jan there was a power cut the day after a storm on the day of my appointment but at that time they hadnt started my treatment yet.

power cuts round here seem to be getting pretty common now

i dont really want to be sent home to wash the dye out myself if this happens because i have long hair and would end up with dye all over my clothes and coat.

has anyone experienced anything like this?

I don't think case is at all cut and dried

Where do you live? The northern most tip of Scotland. If so, fair enough but otherwise I think you’ll be fine. Speak to your hairdressers if your concerned. They’d never make a living if this happened all the time.

Weather is an act of God so noone would be to blame for issues arising from a power cut caused by strong winds.
In the case of hospitals they have emergency back-up generators.
When my DD was alive and we had essential medical equipment which required electricity to operate it, we were registered with our power provider and in the event of a prolonged power cut, we would have been supplied with a generator by them. The same in the event of a planned power outage - we were given advance notice and asked if we would need any assistance.
Having your hair dyed at the hairdressers is not an emergency and would be dealt with as best as possible in the circumstances - same as you would do at home if you were dying your own hair and the power went off. Obviously you would not expect the hairdresser to charge you for the full service if she/he had to wash the dye off and send you home without styling it but it is hardly life threatening!

I'm assuming you are much younger than me OP and haven't lived through the many power cuts of the 1970's! You remind me of my DS when we last had a long power cut a few years ago due to storms.
DS: How are we going to watch TV mum?
Me: We're not. Read a book by torch light!
DS: How are we going to eat dinner mum. Can we have fish and chips from the chippy?
Me: I can cook pasta and sauce on the gas hob/camping stove DS. And anyway the chippy is closed due to the power cut.
Meanwhile, the roof had blown off DD's school. DD's hospital bed had failed and the lift and hoist to get her to her bedroom didn't work - but we coped. But the younger generation (DS was a teenager at this point) are completely clueless and unable to cope in such situations. Lord help them all in the future!

Helena - why do you type so weirdly? What's with the freaky spacing?

@WorraLiberty ✂️I Stand Corrected

@SixButterflies Are you referring to paragraphs?

@bigbluebus that sounds hellish but the 70s was getting on for 50 years ago and actually in a different century.

So why are so many insistent on a race to the bottom.

I used the hairdressing thing as one example but its not just that. Its the elderly and infirm.
Its the damage to the economy.

We are too reliant on computers. The Nat West computer took hours to boot up after a power cut and they were having to turn away shopkeepers who wanted to bank their takings.

When the boss of a local coffee shop phoned the power company he got told. "Well we have up until 6pm TOMMORROW night to restore power. " he was bloody furious.

@AGHHHH I think they're referring to the fact that there are several spaces between words.

@crazycatgal maybe it's just my phone but there are no extra spaces between words here [santa]

No extra spaces here either.

Must just be my screen!

Someone else mentioned it earlier in the thread too. It happens with all this posters posts for me, not just this thread.

didnt realize it looked like that i use a laptop.

@SixButterflies It's always been the same for me too. Strange.

Yes all of OPs posts in any thread I've ever seen her post on have been very spaced out like this, I had always assumed it was just her phone/tablet/computer

Weird. I wonder if you all use the same browser?

I'm on a laptop, using Google Chrome and it looks fine to me.

I'm on the MN app on iPhone. I've never seen any other OPs posts do this aside from Helena... curious!

Places of importance have generators, like hospitals. We also have contingency plans. Most large organisations have some kind of emergency plan for all kinds of scenarios.

Re NHS:
If there is going to be a storm then NHS services are usually warned via the Met office update sent out in the local area and staff make notes of who they deem to be most vulnerable at home, and will visit/check on them and all kinds of plans, community workers have a plan for snow using 4x4’s, local fire and rescue also have lists of vulnerable people. We have voluntary orgs who can give help and support too. People are told not to travel unless necessary and train companies usually have too many leaves on the track to be able to move

A lot of faith and trust was lost in the winter of 2013

In hairdressers?

Im lost! Was the whole point of the thread what would happen at the hairdressers in naice Hornchurch or was that just a way to make a point??

What a bizarre thread!

I don't know about any hairdressers, but the hospital where I work has a back up generator. We had a powercut that lasted nearly all day last year, and it was fine.

Re. the hair dye, worse comes to worse you could use bottled water to wash the dye out?

What a bizarre thread.,

@HelenaDove Your original post only mentioned the specific issue of the hairdressers, not whether electricity companies need to get their act together and sort out electricity supplies so that they don't go off every time the wind blows strongly.
And the 1970's was a decade in which I (and many others on here, I'm sure) remember living and I don't consider myself to be that old! My point being that I knew how to cope in a power cut in 2013 because I had lived through them in the 1970's and I can also cope without electrical gadgets because I have managed perfectly well without them in my lifetime! The fact the 1970's is in "another century" is irrelevant. 2001 is in a different century to 1999 but they are only 2 years apart!

WRT hospitals, the emergency generators kick in. Only essential sites and one or two computers per ward are served. Super fun when the test at the weekend and I'm a lonely corner of the hospital.

With businesses, I guess it's "one of those things" but presumably they have insurance. I think big businesses like theme parks and stadia will have better insurance that covers this sort of thing.

Are you worried about when the Russians turn off the gas or whatever? Come WWIII I doubt we will be all that concerned about our tresses. I do worry about if/when the banks go down. The problems we have if one bank gets a glitch highlight this! Scary stuff!

I can always spot a thread by OP because the title has the strange spacing in it

No one else's posts have the spacing, just OP, on every post I've ever read of hers

I've always found this most perplexing

I'm on the app but the spacing is always random whatever device or browser I use