Eskom announces Stage 5 power cuts for Wednesday and Thursday

[r00igev@@r]

Might as well use a random number generator. Any other generator is not working either...

 

[rh1]

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Thanks I guess. It is getting crazy at the moment. Hopefully the grid the survives long enough till my install is complete.

 

[rh1]

Wow..... Why don't they just make it stage 6, keep it stage 6 and fix everything quickly.

Dont think they have the money for the diesel.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Throwing an odd number in there to keep it fresh

Well I use to think 3 and 5 was a myth...

 

[dualmeister]

 

[mojoman]

Dont think they have the money for the diesel.

How long before we run out of diesel...isn't it something crazy like 9 million liters a day they are ploughing through?

 

[KantSnyer]

Just up the road from us this morning

 

[grantduke]

Just up the road from us this morning

What blew up?

 

[RedViking]

Just up the road from us this morning

It is here.

/Stranger Things

 

[wingnut771]

What blew up?

Eskom.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Imagine waking up at 8, switching on PC, and going to put on the kettle only to realise there's no ****ing power and you have a meeting at 9.

Its ****ing emberrassing, especially when dealing with international clients and you made triple sure the previous day that you won't get hit unless its stage 4.

Lo and behold these naiers hit you with a stage 5 or 6. I don't even remember these stages anymore.

I now need to make a plan to get a new battery for my laptop because the current one is moertoe already.

Vote anc and wakeup in wakanda.

 

[KantSnyer]

What blew up?

Substation apparently

 

[N@t3]

ma se po3s , on stage 6 we have 2hrs cut, now on stage 5 we out for 5 hours at a time wtf.

 

[wbot]

This round of LS is never going to end

 

[neoprema]

So after trying to convince us that the wage increase was required to stabilize power…. They pull out the next one : “no stock and availability of parts for repairs.”

Eskom must think we’re really a bunch of stupids

 

[neoprema]

ma se po3s , on stage 6 we have 2hrs cut, now on stage 5 we out for 5 hours at a time wtf.

A lot of switchgear and substations are tripping and/or breaking because they weren’t made for constant on-off-on. Being turned off is supposed to be a rare event for those systems.

 

[Gordon_R]

This round of LS is never going to end

A lot of switchgear and substations are tripping and/or breaking because they weren’t made for constant on-off-on. Being turned off is supposed to be a rare event for those systems.

If this is true, load shedding may eventually become self-limiting... /s

 

[cn@]

Imagine waking up at 8, switching on PC, and going to put on the kettle only to realise there's no ****ing power and you have a meeting at 9.

Its ****ing emberrassing, especially when dealing with international clients and you made triple sure the previous day that you won't get hit unless its stage 4.

Do we still have international clients?!?!?

 

[KantSnyer]

Just up the road from us this morning

 

[Drifter]

For us it's easy. No matter what stage, it's 4 hours, except for stage 6, then we are off for 6 hours,