What affect are the power cuts having on businesses?

johnny lightning · Post by **johnny lightning** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:01 pm

I was living in Snooky during the 2012 "troubles". I had a restaurant with a few rooms as well and while you could say we "coped", it was not without plenty of agro every fucking day! We even had our own well, which of course became useless when the power went out for 12 hours and our storage tank ran dry. The only people who did well during those months were the water trucks and generator sellers. There is a reason there are so many bald folks from 2012 Snooky.

Johnny

Captain Bonez · Post by **Captain Bonez** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:03 pm

https://m.phnompenhpost.com/business/sm ... -blackouts

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:16 pm

pczz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:53 am
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:11 pm Huge impact on small Khmer businesses in Sihanoukville anyway. One example: Our neighbors run two businesses from their home/shop front. He washes motorbikes and she runs a beauty salon. Well, shit, no water and no electricity in the daytime means they have no more business.

Thats just one example because I was talking with them today, but the printers, internet shops and even cafes are all feeling the pinch. Who wants to sit in an over-heated cafe to cool off ? Not to mention that the cold beers are getting warm.

Here at the moment, it is really (at least) 6 hours a day without power for most of Sihanoukville. I'm sure it's not so bad in PP, but even several hours a day without fans or A/C must be impacting businesses.
Any answers from business owners either in PP or elsewhere ?
Sounds like snooky used to be around 2012. They coped well enough then. Even in pp used to have powercuts almost daily. We used to joke it was whenenver the government threw a party.

At the time, we believed that things could only get better in Sihanoukville, and everyone was more or less in the same boat. Now we've gone back to the bad old days, and to rub it in, the casinos and Chinese businesses are all lit up with neons and air-conditioned, while locals spend hours with no fans and no water. The difference between the two worlds is visible and in your face. Add reduced business to the mix, and that makes a lot of unhappy people.
As it says in the PPP article, people are still paying rent for their shops and restaurants - and in SHV all the rents have gone up quite considerably, often doubled in the past year - and now, on top of the competition with the Chinese, they are paying top dollar for shacks with no power and no water much of the time.
There is no end in sight unfortunately, and meanwhile, people have to pay their bills.

lostjeremy · Post by **lostjeremy** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:25 pm

A lot of factory workers in my wife's family only getting half day shifts which means half the salary.

Doc67 · Post by **Doc67** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:14 am

siliconlife wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:42 pm A Khmer friend told me that Eurotech (I think?) factories are running out of drinking water in Phnom Penh and unable to produce enough to meet demands.

If they run critically low of drinking water then the shit really will hit the fan. The profiteering will start. If they run out of water to make beer is will be chaos. All day power cuts, water in short supply, beer prices doubling = Big trouble.

All joking apart regarding beer prices, when life becomes so unpleasant on a daily basis, expats who can leave will start to leave. Tourists will stay away or leave early once they realise they have made a big mistake. Locals may even start to protest on the streets, especially as they still have to pay the same rents (to the rich owners of their properties) and have insufficient business to meet those payments.

This all has all the makings of big trouble and apparently we haven't seen the worst of it yet. I have already started to make enquiries about a places to rent in Pattaya for April to June, then back home to UK for a couple of months. When my lease expires in December 2019 I will most likely not renew for a year, but stay only on a month to month basis. If next year is the same I won't waste time hanging about, I'll just leave and come back in September when normality is resumed.

We all have made plenty of compromises in our decision to live here: bad air, dodgy food, dangerous streets/traffic, dodgy hospitals, very dodgy police. The list goes on. Regular half-day power cuts, no running water after midnight (in my place) and the overhanging threat of worse to come is reaching my limit of tolerance. It won't take much more...

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:27 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:14 am Locals may even start to protest on the streets,

Possibly...which is why the big boys are chuckling to themselves at how fortunate they are that the main opposition party was vanquished when it was...

...there's no viable alternative party to capitalize on this clusterfuck.

The people can "protest" all they want but there's no recourse. If they push too hard the big boys may just come back with:

Felgerkarb · Post by **Felgerkarb** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:54 am

I have some nieces that work in the factories, they have had no power and no water for weeks now. Completely cut off. Out near Chom Chao.

The country is slowing sliding off a cliff...they lose water production it's over. Recall this scene (I always feel like the inspector narrating this over the years here in KoW, Lark Hill is UNTAC, etc..):

violet · Post by **violet** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:24 am

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:54 am I have some nieces that work in the factories, they have had no power and no water for weeks now. Completely cut off. Out near Chom Chao.

The country is slowing sliding off a cliff...they lose water production it's over. Recall this scene (I always feel like the inspector narrating this over the years here in KoW, Lark Hill is UNTAC, etc..):

Kayve · Post by **Kayve** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:26 am

300$ everyday on the generator for my office building

Felgerkarb · Post by **Felgerkarb** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:45 am

City Mall just goes dark during the outages....Morticia was in there and it was chaos...asked the workers...yup, every day. /facepalm

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