I'm sure that this can only happen in Africa !!! Yesterday at 8.32am our electricity went off ... now that is nothing unusual I hear you all saying ... after all, a week without a power cut is a miracle !!!
Well not only the power on our complex ... I went into Hillcrest yesterday ... well I couldn't exactly do much at home with no power ... (well I could of but being the P of P ... no electricity was a great excuse to be out on the streets !!!) and lo= and behold ... there was NO POWER in the whole of Hillcrest ... went to HPS for coffee ... they had no power ... and apparently the power shortage was all the way from Gillits to Botha's Hill ... for those not in the know ... that's a pretty BIG area ...
Seems there was a fire at our sub-station which caused the problem ... and 14hours later !!! yes 14 hours without power ... we eventually got power restored to our area at 10.35pm last night ... thankfully it wasn't too cold ... and Kelsey & I invited ourselves to Sally's for dinner ... who lives just 2km along the road ... to the left of us and they had power !!! AND Waterfall had power ... which is the funniest thing of all cos usually if any one's going to have a shortage it's them !!!
I was just grateful when I heard the power come on at 10.30pm cos I was stressing about not waking up without my alarm and having to have a cold shower ... and a big kudos to Samsung my washing machine ... when the power came back on it carried on on its original cycle LOL ... that's what woke me up !!!
So the fact that this morning we have both power and sunshine ... the washing machine went back on with its original load and I've done 2 loads since then ... gotta make up for the power I didn't get to use yesterday !!!
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