poweralert....

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Apparently Bloemfontein has gone dark...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637877065398534144

Can anyone who lives in Bloem confirm?

 

[dualmeister]

Can anyone who lives in Bloem confirm?

I doubt anyone here lives in Bloem.
/runs

 

[purple face]

Can anyone who lives in Bloem confirm?

Oh no, I hope everything is ok.

 

[The_Librarian]

Can anyone who lives in Bloem confirm?

Good call, thanks.

 

[purple face]

Good call, thanks.

Do you live in Bloem?

 

[The_Librarian]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637881435880128512

 

[The_Librarian]

Do you live in Bloem?

Nope.

 

[The_Librarian]

Seems like it is real

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637868808760090634

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637873441536614411

https://twitter.com/x/status/1637871153099202563

 

[The_Librarian]

Yep, confirmed.

SAPS is on the scene to check if it was sabotage or not.

Fire brigade is also present.

Good luck to all Bloemfonteiners, dinge gaan rof begin raak

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

The country thanks Bloemfontein for their sacrifice in reducing the load...

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Yep, confirmed.

SAPS is on the scene to check if it was sabotage or not.

Fire brigade is also present.

Good luck to all Bloemfonteiners, dinge gaan rof begin raak

Highly doubt it was sabotage, at least EFF sabotage

 

[Paulsie]

Yep, confirmed.

SAPS is on the scene to check if it was sabotage or not.

Fire brigade is also present.

Good luck to all Bloemfonteiners, dinge gaan rof begin raak

Based on feedback, it is the main sub that feeds from Eskom to the entire city.

 

[The_Librarian]

Based on feedback, it is the main sub that feeds from Eskom to the entire city.

Yep. Big schitte.

People need to buy water and dry food ASAP

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Yep. Big schitte.

People need to buy water and dry food ASAP

Meh, they will be out for what? A few days? We have suffered worse in JHB xD

 

[AlphaJohn]

Seeing that Bloemfontein is the national judicial capital, we not losing anything important?

Its not like we investigating the corruption anyway?

 

[The_Librarian]

Nou ja hele Bloemfontein sonder krag 2substasies brand hier is ons eerste proefloop om voorbereiding te toets . Sal op hoogte hou die inoefining behoort van waarde vir almal te wees
1.sal sien hoe lank selfone beskikbaar wees .
2.hoe lank herstel sal neem van krag.
3.Efektiewieteit van sonstelsel
Generater kostes
4.Hoe gaan handel beinvloed word.
5.misdaad .bedeywighede
Nou ja sien julle aan die anderkant van die storie.

There you go.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Its not like we investigating the corruption anyway?

Exactly :shrug:

There you go.

Fake Boer, where is the plan? Less complaining, more plan making

 

[B-1]

Sounds like its a substation that burned and then tripped a 132kva line. So once they put out the Harvard substation and assessed things the other areas should be able to go online again.
I don't know which areas the Harvard substation feeds though.

 

[wingnut771]

When is Koeberg fully online?

Next year

 

[Thugscub]

Getting nervous for the peeps without solar systems or back ups. Things are going to go pear shaped. The track record is wrecked.