X was watching TV the other day and the Power Puff Girls were on. Mama, he said, look the Power Out Girls! Of course I had to laugh.... But he has a point. The past two years the electricity was pretty goo din our neighbourhood. We had our share of the power outages but they usually occurred in daytime. Lately, we have many outages and at all times. In the evening they are still usually not more than half an hour but on Tuesday the power went off at 4:30 in the afternoon and was still not on when I left for work the next day.
Now I'm only hoping that we won't get the same situation as a few years ago. We went on a power supply schedule that started in early November and lasted till early June. We were living in a condo building at the time and eventually we got a separate cable supplying the elevator. We had no power from 5 am till between 5-6 pm for two days and then the third day we got electricity at around 11 am till 5 pm. Then we sat in the dark until 11 pm when the power would come back on. We started that time with an inverter so we still had lights and could use the TV but that thing only lasted for 2 months...
Now we have a small generator outside. It makes one hell of a noise but fans and light work so I'm pretty happy. Though, of course, you can't let it run the whole night... I keep my fingers crossed that it won't get any worse.
No comments:
Post a Comment