poweralert....

Status
Not open for further replies.
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.
Click to expand...
They did that back in December, Eskom gave them 3 days, the problem is when it rains it fraks things up more and technically Johannesburg is supposed to have been declared in an SOD but apparently we're treated differently to Durban.
 
Lupus said:
They did that back in December, Eskom gave them 3 days, the problem is when it rains it fraks things up more and technically Johannesburg is supposed to have been declared in an SOD but apparently we're treated differently to Durban.
Click to expand...
Go on a looting spree to boost your credentials.
 
Vorastra said:
GDP contributions, total of ZA GDP (2018):

Cape Town: 9.8%
Durban: 9.59%

Breakdown of economy.

Cape Town

View attachment 1474919

Durban

View attachment 1474917
Click to expand...
And in 2017 it was KZN

Four facts about our provincial economies | Statistics South Africa

www.statssa.gov.za www.statssa.gov.za
prov1.jpg
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X