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Enzo Matrix said:
Craziness in the wild west right now

Got people in our complex asking for hot water for baby formula

Just nice being in a position to help

**** eskom and **** anc
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Reminds me of when we had no shops after the looting in durban and we had to queue for hours for basics like nappies and formula. At least we had power and water.
 
From last Saturday morning to Wednesday all together we had about 111 hrs of no power. 88 of it continuous. Problems started early Saturday morning, 5hrs out, power restored. Went down about 3 hrs later didn't see power back late Tuesday night. Power failed twice on Wednesday, finally late Wednesday night we came on and exclude load shedding have stayed on.

Part of the issue was City Power decided that we were part of a bigger outage. We weren't. After fixing that bigger outage, they tried to turn us on, didn't take. Tried again 24 hrs later still didn't take. City Power showed up only on Tuesday to start working on the real cause of the outage. A cable fault.

Then for funzies we lost water pressure for the bulk of the week.

If you look at City Power twitter, not only it is a long list of suburbs out and some of the issues taking over 24-48 hrs to sort out. This is becoming the norm and it will be easier to keep track of the time that you do have power.

I think City Power needs to ask Eskom to be excused from load shedding for a few days, to try to get on top of things. I also think that if the toddlers that run Joburg are done squabbling, they need to make good on their 2 or 3 year old promise, start investing in alternative energy to lessen load shedding impact on our city because I think the brown stuff is hitting the fan. Though if the fan is moving predicts if you have power.
 
KatieKim said:
From last Saturday morning to Wednesday all together we had about 111 hrs of no power. 88 of it continuous. Problems started early Saturday morning, 5hrs out, power restored. Went down about 3 hrs later didn't see power back late Tuesday night. Power failed twice on Wednesday, finally late Wednesday night we came on and exclude load shedding have stayed on.

Part of the issue was City Power decided that we were part of a bigger outage. We weren't. After fixing that bigger outage, they tried to turn us on, didn't take. Tried again 24 hrs later still didn't take. City Power showed up only on Tuesday to start working on the real cause of the outage. A cable fault.

Then for funzies we lost water pressure for the bulk of the week.

If you look at City Power twitter, not only it is a long list of suburbs out and some of the issues taking over 24-48 hrs to sort out. This is becoming the norm and it will be easier to keep track of the time that you do have power.

I think City Power needs to ask Eskom to be excused from load shedding for a few days, to try to get on top of things. I also think that if the toddlers that run Joburg are done squabbling, they need to make good on their 2 or 3 year old promise, start investing in alternative energy to lessen load shedding impact on our city because I think the brown stuff is hitting the fan. Though if the fan is moving predicts if you have power.
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You spelt "City Power" wrong. Correct spelling is "Shitty Powa"...
 
R21 Corporate Park and surrounds are also experiencing issues with the substation close by. Had the power fail more than twice now, took more than 3/4/5 hours to restore the power.

This is not a good trend.
 
KatieKim said:
From last Saturday morning to Wednesday all together we had about 111 hrs of no power. 88 of it continuous. Problems started early Saturday morning, 5hrs out, power restored. Went down about 3 hrs later didn't see power back late Tuesday night. Power failed twice on Wednesday, finally late Wednesday night we came on and exclude load shedding have stayed on.

Part of the issue was City Power decided that we were part of a bigger outage. We weren't. After fixing that bigger outage, they tried to turn us on, didn't take. Tried again 24 hrs later still didn't take. City Power showed up only on Tuesday to start working on the real cause of the outage. A cable fault.

Then for funzies we lost water pressure for the bulk of the week.

If you look at City Power twitter, not only it is a long list of suburbs out and some of the issues taking over 24-48 hrs to sort out. This is becoming the norm and it will be easier to keep track of the time that you do have power.

I think City Power needs to ask Eskom to be excused from load shedding for a few days, to try to get on top of things. I also think that if the toddlers that run Joburg are done squabbling, they need to make good on their 2 or 3 year old promise, start investing in alternative energy to lessen load shedding impact on our city because I think the brown stuff is hitting the fan. Though if the fan is moving predicts if you have power.
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When power goes out outside of loadshedding, I now expect nothing less than 48hours with city power. Anything earlier is a bonus. Eg, 8pm go out, by morning(12hrs later after closing all tickets) they give update saying morning shift will look at it, by evening(24hrs later) an update of someone is on site to look at it and will update, and then another update of morning shift will fix it(at this point its 36hrs down), only then is any action taken on whats wrong, which is anything from flick switch to rebuilding substation
 
I like to think of this as a taste of what's to come as temperatures start to get colder over the next few months
 
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