Damaged block heater cord could give you shock and awe. â General Motors is recalling almost 3000 vehicles that use a specific block heater. GM named the recalled vehicles as the 2013-2014 Buick Encore, Buick Verano, Chevy Cruze and the 2012-2014 Chevy Sonic.
It seems that 3.68% of the total population is found to be hard of hearing and 0.3% of the total population is functionally Deaf, out of a total population of about 268,000,000 (2005) living souls in the US. Half of both proposed figures seems to be older than 65 years of age.
People who are profoundly deaf lipread, and if they are deaf from early in life may use sign language. They need a textphone or videophone. Deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK. There are estimated to be about 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. The number is rising as the number of people over 60 increases. About 673,000 of these are severely or profoundly deaf; 420,000 of them cannot hear well enough to use a voice telephone, even with a device to make it louder.