Power outage

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Power outage

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Yesterday from 11AM, still continuing.

South of 271 towards Phsar PC and 371, large area affected.

Apparently some genius working on a storm-water drain or sewer trench cut the cable.

Then they must have tried to 'fix it', and a larger area went out.

Hopefully they then went home and committed hara-kiri.
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Re: Power outage

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Opposite neighbours in our street without power since 11am yesterday, ours stayed on until about 10pm then stopped, came back on about half an hour ago and is still working. Quite a hot night.
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Re: Power outage

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Exactly the same thing in my street. You and i must be on the same circuit, you lucky dog!

Btw, my Chinese battery fan gave up the ghost just before this (wow, the Chinese made a bad product?), so I advise people not to buy same.

I can get it wired to run off mains only, so not a total loss.
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Re: Power outage

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vladimir wrote: Apparently some genius working on a storm-water drain or sewer trench cut the cable.
Well, that's always the first thing they do. Whatever they are trying to repair there is always immediately some idiot that cuts the power cable. It's a kind of nationwide syndrome.
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Re: Power outage

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We were caught in traffic the other day as workers intentionally brought down a whole set of power lines over the road ahead of us by simply snaking a hole digger over them and clawing downwards. Simple, yet brutally effective.
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