Blackouts, Saturday 20 June 2015: Stage 2 from 18:45 - 10pm

[Hamster]

POWER ALERT.5: Load shedding has changed back to stage 2 at 18:45 and this is likey to be until 22:00

Well **** it. I'm gonna go sit in warm bath for three hours and get p*** drunk doing it.

 

[ghostR]

And back to stage 2 we go

useless

 

[Vrotappel]

Back to stage 2. Eskom fekkers drunk? The joke Molefe should also be fired.

 

[MickZA]

And back to stage 2 we go

:wtf:

... Construct sentences using the following words:

1) Eskom, arse, elbow

2) Eskom, p!ssup, brewery

 

[MickeyD]

 

[MickeyD]

I cannot keep up...

 

[R13...]

**** the switch me off just as Eskom reverts to stage 2. If they waited 5 more minutes I'd have escaped

 

[Elite Override]

They're so incompetent it would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

 

[A Non Blonde]

Eskom competing for a place finish in earlier thread http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/707378-Have-you-ever-screwed-up-at-work-and-how-bad

 

[vaakseun]

They're so incompetent it would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

Yeah, this is how a national blackout is going to happen.

 

[chromedome]

I'm supposed to be off till 20h30, so far nothing

 

[genetic]

I'm supposed to be off till 20h30, so far nothing

Cape Town has excess capacity from Steenberg:

LOAD-SHEDDING ALERT: The City will try not to implement load-shedding tonight due to the spare generation capacity available.

However, latest is that zones 6 and 14 are being load shed till 8:30...

https://twitter.com/cityofct

 

[vaakseun]

Cape Town has excess capacity from Steenberg:



However, latest is that zones 6 and 14 are being load shed till 8:30...

https://twitter.com/cityofct

We're going back to stage 1 at 20:00.

 

[cavedog]

We're going back to stage 1 at 20:00.

Looks like nothing for CPT from 8pm.... Suspended

 

[vaakseun]

We're going back to stage 1 at 20:00.

Correction: We will cease load shedding at 20:00.

 

[vaakseun]

Looks like nothing for CPT from 8pm.... Suspended

Yeah, again the issue of their twitter saying one thing and their website another.

 

[bekdik]

19:58 And Cape Town now says:

STAGE 1 LOADSHEDDING WILL BE AVOIDED FROM 20:00 TO 22:00 DUE TO THE CITY HAVING SPARE GENERATION CAPACITY AVAILABLE TONIGHT.

 

[Hamster]

/starts setting up telescope. The one benefit a blackout has...

 

[AthenianOwl]

/been waiting for electricity to go poof in my area since 6pm tonight

 

[cavedog]

Loadshedding has been suspended.....