Rolling Blackouts: Monday 22 June 2015 [Stg 1: 1600-1700, Stg2: 1700-2200]

[dualmeister]

"This is due to increased electricity demand and a shortage of generation capacity resulting from technical faults at some of our power station units," Eskom said.

What a load of ****. This happens every day?

 

[bwana]

I'm safe unless they downgrade to Stg 1 between 8pm and 10pm.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!

18.00 till 22.00 for me

 

[MickeyD]

 

[Sbudah]

I'm taking bets on this now. Odds, bets and cash... go

 

[Sneeky]

Shakes Mashaba and Brian Molefe need to get together. They can then sit and talk about their claims that Bafana can win 14-0 and Eskom wont loadshed in winter, and try and figure out who is the most delusional of the 2 of them.

 

[MickeyD]

 

[dualmeister]

Waits for COCT's response

 

[bwana]

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Unless they downgrade to one, or upgrade to three, at 8pm I'm safe tonight…

 

[vaakseun]

Waits for COCT's response

City of Cape Town

STAGE 2 LOADSHEDDING to be implemented from 18:00 - 20:00

 

[savage]

Well Stage 2 means we'll shed... -smiles @ batteries-

 

[Edwe]

Announcement at 14:00 that Stage 1 is to be implemented at 17:00. Stage 2 announced at ~18:30 and Stage 3 shortly afterwards. Then reverted to Stage 2 within an hour. Suspended at 21:40.

My original prediction is just late by about 60-90min. I stand by my prediction that 3 will be announced shortly after stage two is to be implemented.

 

[dualmeister]

City of Cape Town

STAGE 2 LOADSHEDDING to be implemented from 18:00 - 20:00

Ah well. Still nothing here today unless they move to Stage 3B

 

[MickeyD]

Unless they downgrade to one, or upgrade to three, at 8pm I'm safe tonight…

I'm off in T-3 ...

 

[MickZA]

Think I'll put the light bulb back in the fridge - stage 2 suits me better

 

[vaakseun]

Ah well. Still nothing here today unless they move to Stage 3B

Just dodged the bullet today unless they change their minds later on.

 

[MickeyD]

Think I'll put the light bulb back in the fridge - stage 2 suits me better

/switches on every appliance and pool pump and spotlights...

Come on Stage 3 !!!!!

 

[koeks525]

Ah I am up for load shedding from 18:00 to 20:00 Guess I will use that time slot as my afternoon/evening nap time.

EDIT: Just a random thought I had, as I was heading back for East London... I know there are a lot of wind turbines around PE... do these wind turbines generate power for PE and perhaps other surrounding area's? Shouldn't PE also have times where it can avoid Stage 1 because of the power from the wind turbines?

 

[vaakseun]

New info from City of Cape Town.

STAGE 1 LOADSHEDDING WILL BE IMPLEMENTED FROM 17:00 TO 18:00 AND 20:00 to 22:00. STAGE 2 WILL BE IMPLEMENTED FROM 18:00 TO 20:00


Sigh... didn't take long to change their minds.

 

[VarkSteaks]

Damn stage 2 hit us from 6pm - 8pm tonight :twisted: