Power Outage ~ 28th March 2010~!

[Michael Alexander]

Don't forget, Eskom is doing work 2morrow on their lines ..... so the power/juice/krag/energy/current/voltage will be off from 08h00 till 16h00 sunday.......

Mmmh! I was just wondering if other places in the world shut down the grid for the day to service the powerlines?

[Andrew Darné]

Make that 06h00 until 18h00... It's BIG; a long shift tomorrow!

[Alfred Boehme]

If you not used to the two planned Eskom outages per year you are not a true Oranjemunder wake up and smell the roses.

mmmmm I think most places have multiple lines not us

[Michael Alexander]

Sigh! We use to have our own powerstation. not many places had that either....

[Alfred Boehme]

Some operators used to phase the gens without a dip they had the magic touch and others just couldn't get it and would dump the whole station at times

[Michael Alexander]

Gee! It's over, that on earth was that.....? that was a 13 and a half hour power cut..... 

[Alfred Boehme]

Mike no 13 hours and 45 min
We really made a change to global warming, they cant say we didn't do our bit
hip hip hora for O/Mund

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

Um, it appears the jobs are taking longer and longer to complete. Alfie must be slowing down...............

[Andrew Darné]

Nah, Alfie's still up to speed...      it's Eishkom that had problems at Aggenuys. A big job there was the need for the extended shutdown today; usually the maintainance stops are from 08h00 to 16h00.

Mike@, Oranjemund, Alexander Bay, Port Nolloth, Kleinzee, Baken, Koeboes, Steinkopf, Vioolsdrift, Springbok... These folk don't have or even had power stations. They like us are fed from what are called radial feed lines which means there is no alternate power line to supply them when maintenance gets done on a sub or a line. Just part of living in the sticks; so cheer up old lad and think of it as an opportunity to camp out in the garden and enjoy the silence from all those electrically driven sources of noise.

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Eish!.... Wonder why they could not wait for daylight before they switched off the power.... This is not Rocket Science....

[Alfred Boehme]

Um, it appears the jobs are taking longer and longer to complete. Alfie must be slowing down...............

Maybe I am you will never know hehehehe

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

I have ways of finding out..............!!!!!!!!!!   

[Alfred Boehme]

You know how the story goes lets not lets not say online.

[Andrew Darné]

Eish wenna, jy vat gat nê...

[Michael Alexander]