About forty homes in the Mirehouse area of Whitehaven, mostly in Meadow Road and Latrigg Rad, lost power for much of the three three from last Thursday to Sunda due to an underground cable fault.
Whitehaven has a very strong community spirit, and what makes this story an uplifting one is that good neighbours who had not lost power rallied round to help those who had - for example, community heroine Louise MacDonald who lives over the road from some of those affected builed flasks of water, cooked meals, and charged mobile phones for people who had lost power.
When, as sometimes happens, I find the world depressing I think of people like Louise MacDonald and others who are willing to give time and effort to help their neighbours and their community. There are many good people in the world and they are what makes life worth living.
Whitehaven has a very strong community spirit, and what makes this story an uplifting one is that good neighbours who had not lost power rallied round to help those who had - for example, community heroine Louise MacDonald who lives over the road from some of those affected builed flasks of water, cooked meals, and charged mobile phones for people who had lost power.
When, as sometimes happens, I find the world depressing I think of people like Louise MacDonald and others who are willing to give time and effort to help their neighbours and their community. There are many good people in the world and they are what makes life worth living.
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