Load Shedding Lameness

[strikersa]

What a way to start the year. Eskom, our national electricity supplier has begun implementing load shedding, where they cut power to towns and cities to meet demand. We've been experiencing blackouts of 2 to 2 1/2 hours each day this week, and it's disrupting my work because I loose out on a lot of news items and my employers up in Centurion's

Comments

[acerover]

oh dang!That stinks Sriker! I hope they get it fixed.

[compdinosaur]

That's awful, Striker. You'd think that your state owned utilities would focus on taking care of the needs of their customers. In California a few years ago, when bad energy policies resulted in rolling blackouts all over the state, the voters were able to recall their Governor and vote in Arnold Swartzneggar (The Governator). Too bad there isn't a political option to fix this problem.

If it makes you feel any better, we didn't have electricity at all back in the Stone Age. Those idiotic cavemen were too busy chasing me and my dinosaur pals around to invent it! Of course there was that Ben Franklinstone fellow, but everyone thought he was crazy......

:)

[strikersa]

Here in this country, it's all about the state owned utilities taking care of their BOSSES, making sure they get big Black Economic Empowerment deals (which only empowers the fat cats while leaving the poor black communities in the dumps). Sure wish we had even the Governator here, because even he would do a much better job at running Eskom than the current lot.

LOL @ Ben Franklinstone ^^

[wesleym134]

Man Striker. It's times like this I wish people would take nuclear power seriously. I mean it would be a great way to produce power. I mean look at Canada they can get power from what the US Department of Energy would call unusable unclear waste and Uranium cam be 95% recycled, making it a great long term power supply.

[mortonfox]

Happy birthday!