Rolling Blackouts: Sunday 28 June 2015 [Stage 2 from 08h00-22h00]

[ponder]

We've been having it from 8-10, just came back on.

 

[ponder]

So sick and tired of this *** and to think we have at least another two years of this to go through

Pretty sure the gov said 3yrs and they always get it wrong so work on 5yrs.

We also don't have water for most of the day.

TIA

 

[PhireSide]

Pretty sure the gov said 3yrs and they always get it wrong so work on 5yrs.

We also don't have water for most of the day.

TIA

2, 3, 5, 10, who's counting anymore? Not that you can trust what they say anyways...

I feel your pain. I left Grahamstown because of the severe water shortages. Best is to buy and implement a nice 5'000l JoJo tank and keep it topped up with municipal water with a small pump. At least 5kl will be enough for a few days if the excrement hits the oscillation. If you can raise the tank above ground level, even better, which means you will have some water pressure if the power goes out and your pump is unable to work.

 

[ponder]

Best is to buy and implement a nice 5'000l JoJo tank and keep it topped up with municipal water with a small pump.

You are not allowed to do that, you are not even allowed to run a hose pipe from your jojo where the jojo (rainfed) acts as the source, buckets only. If you don't comply you get fined (yes it's been enforced before). If you exceed 15kl of usage a month you will get fined.

On friday I was in durban and there I saw water running down the road in two different places due to burst pipes. Wastage of water due to neglected infrastructure in this country is very high and borderline criminal if you ask me.

 

[PhireSide]

You are not allowed to do that, you are not even allowed to run a hose pipe from your jojo where the jojo (rainfed) acts as the source, buckets only. If you don't comply you get fined (yes it's been enforced before). If you exceed 15kl of usage a month you will get fined.

On friday I was in durban and there I saw water running down the road in two different places due to burst pipes. Wastage of water due to neglected infrastructure in this country is very high and borderline criminal if you ask me.

Wasn't aware of that? A friend of mine in Grahamstown had a setup as what I mentioned, and the municipality actually suggested the idea to him in the first place.

KZN muni seems a bit anal over something so small. I mean, what harm can come from using a hosepipe on your own collected rainwater in your own tank that you paid for? Numbnuts, I'd tell them to go get stuffed

 

[daveza]

https://www.capetown.gov.za/en/electricity/Pages/LoadShedding.aspx

 

[Hamster]

I'm good unless they implement stage 3...which logic dictates shouldn't happen since nobody is really using any of their power today ('cept me if course). But then I don't trust a damn thing Eskom says

 

[HendrieV]

20:00-22:00:twisted:

 

[undesign]

14:17 and we haven't gone off yet. Cape Town area. Stage 2 suspended?

 

[vaakseun]

In the week I read of another one at Bedford Dam in KZN.

Eskom are currently building another one, Ingula in the Little Drakensberg range that will have a generation capacity of over 1300MW.



Estimated completion date: January 2069 (hopefully).

And then there is of course our lovely little Steenbras pumped storage scheme that was recently renovated and now reducing Cape Town's loadshedding by around 50%.

 

[vaakseun]

14:17 and we haven't gone off yet. Cape Town area. Stage 2 suspended?

Only stage 1 for Cape Town today from 12pm.

 

[Stokstert]

Why do some of us peeps have to suffer load shedding in Pretoria while the Muslims in Laudium and Erasmia have a special municipal schedule and are exempted during Ramadan where they have no shedding after sunset?
Are they the special chosen ones?

 

[stefan9]

Why do some of us peeps have to suffer load shedding in Pretoria while the Muslims in Laudium and Erasmia have a special municipal schedule and are exempted during Ramadan where they have no shedding after sunset?
Are they the special chosen ones?

WTF wasn't aware of this

We were of from 12-14 today

 

[R13...]

This is the first I have been shed twice in one day, well more like I'm usually at work during the first slot.

 

[reactor_sa]

Haven't had loadshedding this whole week. Damn those muppets for not sticking to the schedule

 

[ghostR]

Still no load shedding... Been over a month now. Eskom you are disappointing on all levels.

 

[schumi]

Ended at 21:19

 

[Seriously]

Still no load shedding... Been over a month now. Eskom you are disappointing on all levels.

I had it every day for three days in a row. Sad sack ANC eScum.

 

[MickeyD]

I had it every day for three days in a row. Sad sack ANC eScum.

My last week...

Sunday: 20h00-22h00
Monday: -
Tuesday: 16h00-18h30
Wednesday: -
Thursday: 16h00-18h30
Friday: 20h00-22h00
Saturday: 18h00-20h30
Sunday: 08h00-10h30 and 14h00-16h30

 

[The_Traveller]

Why do some of us peeps have to suffer load shedding in Pretoria while the Muslims in Laudium and Erasmia have a special municipal schedule and are exempted during Ramadan where they have no shedding after sunset?
Are they the special chosen ones?

Yip they are not shedding them so that they can continue cooking all that food and then have the slightly longer prayer 2 hours after sunset.

but I live in eldoraigne and we also don't experience much loadshedding. Last was on Wednesday 8 to 10pm.