Who put the lights out?

Yes, the storms that hit parts of England yesterday were severe, and it is a real tragedy that a number of people lost their lives suddenly and unexpectedly. My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected in such extreme ways.
The loss of lives through stormy weather is relatively rare in this part of the world and, therefore, I appreciate, newsworthy.
But what I found hard to take watching today's lunchtime news on TV was how about 10 minutes of the 30 minute bulletin was devoted to non-stories about people being without electricity "for a whole 24 hours!"
[When Carluke was without any gas supplies for almost a full week last year after a contractor accidentally blew up the gas mains, it scarcely merited a mention even in local news.]

What really annoyed me was the whingeing (encouraged by leading questions from reporters) that the power had not been restored after a whole 24 hours had passed. Don't they realise that power workers have to work in extremely dangerous and unpleasant conditions to repair broken power lines, and by its very nature a severe storm causes multiple problems that are not all going to be solved overnight? And, much more seriously, don't people realise that there are millions of folk around the world who have absolutely no access to electricity, or whose supply is at best intermittent? Or what about the effects of the Tsunami on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Asia?

I wish folk in this country would stop complaining about what, in the overall scheme of things, are pretty minor discomforts.

[Incidentally, the photograph was taken in Kenya in 2005, as a big storm was brewing up over the Masai Mara. Now there is one country where electricity supplies are pretty erratic and certainly not universally available.]