Eskom load shedding update: 4 August

From 8 to 10 tonight for me according to Grid Watch. Well done.
 
Anyone in Midrand, Johannesburg able to tell me if they have load shedding today?
 
Fscking hell....

It seems Eskom think Monday and Tuesday are the weekend now.
 
LOL Stage 2 for Cape Town, until 20:00 - 22:30, then Stage 1. That happens to be when City Bowl would be load shed (20:00 - 22:30 @ stage 2). Hmmm, definitely nothing suspicious here.
 
Gnome said:
LOL Stage 2 for Cape Town, until 20:00 - 22:30, then Stage 1. That happens to be when City Bowl would be load shed (20:00 - 22:30 @ stage 2). Hmmm, definitely nothing suspicious here.
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Actually, they normally have load-shedding Stage 1 from 8-10PM. They had it yesterday, which is why I wasn't load shed...
 
Gnome said:
LOL Stage 2 for Cape Town, until 20:00 - 22:30, then Stage 1. That happens to be when City Bowl would be load shed (20:00 - 22:30 @ stage 2). Hmmm, definitely nothing suspicious here.
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I have never experienced loadshedding past 22:00 in CT
 
Gnome said:
Ah ok :p


True, but I've been load shed 20:00 a few times until just after 22:00 :) It definitely happens.
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Yes I understand what you mean. But it was implied that Stage 1 will commence AFTER Stage 2 ends at 10pm. Technically load shedding is 2.5 hours, so from 8pm to 10:30pm. But here in CT it very rarely goes past 2 hours at a time.
 
David Potter ‏@DavidCOJ102 19m19 minutes ago
Randburg power is OFF, this time due to @jhbwater contractor hitting multiple cables during construction. Many hours till it's restored.
 
Sinbad said:
David Potter ‏@DavidCOJ102 19m19 minutes ago
Randburg power is OFF, this time due to @jhbwater contractor hitting multiple cables during construction. Many hours till it's restored.
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That's shocking ...
 
MightyQuin said:
Yes I understand what you mean. But it was implied that Stage 1 will commence AFTER Stage 2 ends at 10pm. Technically load shedding is 2.5 hours, so from 8pm to 10:30pm. But here in CT it very rarely goes past 2 hours at a time.
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Oooh. No Cape Town will scale down to Stage 1 from 8pm+. The rest of the country will still be on Stage 2.

Load shedding ends at 10pm for the entire country as you say.

Sinbad said:
David Potter ‏@DavidCOJ102 19m19 minutes ago
Randburg power is OFF, this time due to @jhbwater contractor hitting multiple cables during construction. Many hours till it's restored.
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Ouch, good time to have a backup power solution :whistle:
 
Bite me Eskom.......i will be sending you the call out bill if that exchange server I was installing a service pack on does not come back up........
 
HunterGR said:
Bite me Eskom.......i will be sending you the call out bill if that exchange server I was installing a service pack on does not come back up........
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And you have no UPS and backup power because?

Have you not realised that this is South Zimbabwe?
 
Sinbad said:
And you have no UPS and backup power because?

Have you not realised that this is South Zimbabwe?
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There is a UPS there apparently.............but i don't look after it, the security company does
 
HunterGR said:
Bite me Eskom.......i will be sending you the call out bill if that exchange server I was installing a service pack on does not come back up........
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Why are you installing a SP on a critical server just before/during scheduled load shedding in the first place?
 
MightyQuin said:
Why are you installing a SP on a critical server just before/during scheduled load shedding in the first place?
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didn't say it was critical.........just will be a shlep to go out there tomorrow if it doesn't come back up..
 
HunterGR said:
didn't say it was critical.........just will be a shlep to go out there tomorrow if it doesn't come back up..
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I didn't say the SP was critical either...........I said it is a critical SERVER. And imagine the "schlep" for the client when their Exchange Server is not up and running tomorrow.
 
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