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Finns are asked how they would cope without power for days on end with winter temperatures as low as -20C.

“Unfortunately the likelihood of someone surviving that kind of inclement weather for days on end is slim.”

"It is not only that they haven't done the job. It is that we have to stay in for days on end just in case anybody comes... we don't know when they're coming or going," he said.

Forget the fish tails, we mean women capable of holding their breath for minutes on end as they dive under the sea several hundred times a day.

With interest rates finally going down for the first time in years, following a period of sticky inflation, the fear from some political forecasters is that an extended strike, lasting weeks on end, will send consumer prices soaring once again, and thus sour voters on Vice President Kamala Harris.