Booked some Eurotunnel tickets last night, for the first time in years. The usual questions about vehicle, passengers, and then numbers of pets:
• Dogs
• Cats
• Ferrets

Excuse me, what? I know plenty of people have ferrets as pets*, but is it a common thing for people to take them on holiday with them?

* We used to have a ferret and a polecat when I was a kid, but they were for rabbiting not petting

#EuroTunnel #PetsOfMastodon #Ferrets

Meanwhile on #Facebook some old boomer climate denier challenged me to drive my EV to Europe and see who wins.

Fully charged my #EV will do around 270 miles. My chosen driving route would be via Hull and the North Sea Ferries; however let's see... Dover is 232 miles away. Even on a very cold day with heaters running I'd make the terminal with about 5% energy left.

That means I can drive quite a few miles into France and even make it into Belgium before needing a charge - and that's if we go #Eurotunnel.

You see, that's the problem. They don't actually have the slightest clue what they're on about. They believe the #dailymail , #telegraph and the other right wing papers, meanwhile I drive around in a 285bhp van which will quite happily 0-60 most cars and takes me to Wolverhampton and back without me even thinking of charging.

The world has moved on. They haven't, and soon it's going to be embarrassing.

@25kV How does something like this happen in such a critical spot like the #Eurotunnel?

Edit: And would a rigid overhead system be "better"?

CC @jon @bovine3dom #Eurostar #eurostarchaos #eurostardelays

Eurostar / Μπλάκαουτ σταμάτησε την κυκλοφορία των τρένων προκαλώντας χάος στις μετακινήσεις

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tvxs.gr/news/kosmos/eurostar-mplakaoyt-stamatise-tin-kykloforia-ton-trenon-prokalontas-chaos-stis-metakiniseis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eurostar-mplakaoyt-stamatise-tin-kykloforia-ton-trenon-prokalontas-chaos-stis-metakiniseis