What's your worst evening blackout slot ?

[seanyp00h]

18:00 - 22:30

Just horrible.

 

[grok]

Pretty much 17h00 - 00:00. When I'm home I want to do stuff.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

18:00 - 22:30

Just horrible.

That^^^ Has got to be the worst, stuck in traffic cos areas around us shed till 18.30, 30min to get dinner cooked, darkness for the rest of the evening so it's either succumb to boredom and sleep at 8(then get woken up at 22.00 when the neighbours alarm goes off as the power comes back) or stay up to get in all your entertainment and have a late night.

 

[dualmeister]

18H00 - 20H30

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Quick question, how's loadshedding affecting you guys running businesses, and in particular, working from home? I know most big(ish) corporates have some sort of backup power.

The area I'm working in doesn't get loadshedding (bastards!), but even if it did the building has the biggest backup power plant I've ever seen (bastards!)

 

[heartbroken]

Quick question, how's loadshedding affecting you guys running businesses, and in particular, working from home? I know most big(ish) corporates have some sort of backup power.

The area I'm working in doesn't get loadshedding (bastards!), but even if it did the building has the biggest backup power plant I've ever seen (bastards!)

Real pain in the arse.

Switched from working on my powerful desktop computer to a modest laptop, so the battery can help me out. Installed a UPS on the modem and telephone just to keep connectivity up. Converted lights to solar, it's not nice working in the dark.

Bought a generator for the days when Eskom really screws the pooch - used for speakers/printing/scanning etc.

All and all, for my modest solution I am out of pocket nearly 15k

 

[creeper]

Quick question, how's loadshedding affecting you guys running businesses, and in particular, working from home? I know most big(ish) corporates have some sort of backup power.

The area I'm working in doesn't get loadshedding (bastards!), but even if it did the building has the biggest backup power plant I've ever seen (bastards!)

SO works from home. Generally not a problem, except for the Adsl that dies. So we have a backup 3G modem for this. SO also arranged meetings with clients over that time. It is really interesting how humans adapt.

 

[Shi]

waking up to 6:00 to 8:00 load shedding on a cold winter's morning and having to get ready for work/school. No hot coffee . The sun is only up around 7 when we leave the house.

 

[bwana]

Quick question, how's loadshedding affecting you guys running businesses, and in particular, working from home? I know most big(ish) corporates have some sort of backup power.

The area I'm working in doesn't get loadshedding (bastards!), but even if it did the building has the biggest backup power plant I've ever seen (bastards!)

I run the ADSL off a car battery booster and my laptop has got ample battery life to get me through the blackout.

 

[ellyally]

18.00-22.30 slot I think all in JHB hate. 4.5hours is a very long time in the dark and cold with nothing to do. 4.5hours during the day you can still do something(garden/fix something/whatever)

 

[Luke7777]

Having had 4 months of constant 18:00-20:30 cuts, I can easily say that was the worst. Since rotational LS came in, I don't have that issue anymore

 

[Sinbad]

18.00-22.30 slot I think all in JHB hate. 4.5hours is a very long time in the dark and cold with nothing to do. 4.5hours during the day you can still do something(garden/fix something/whatever)

Yup
That said, if loadshedding generally came in in the mornings, I think the 6am-10:30am slot would rapidly become the demon.

 

[Venomous]

And when you have it at stage 1, 6pm to 10:30pm, 3 days in a row...

That is EVERYONE'S favourite!

 

[vaakseun]

You guys still getting load shedding?

How quaint.

Greetings from Cape Town.

 

[dualmeister]

Lol

 

[Dan C]

You guys still getting load shedding?

How quaint.

Greetings from Cape Town.

:twisted:

 

[Sinbad]

You guys still getting load shedding?

How quaint.

Greetings from Cape Town.

For the record, City Power JHB is not loadshedding anyone tonight either.

 

[Sneeky]

I can handle the 1800 start, but the 2000 one i fall into regularly is very disruptive.

 

[BigEars]

Here in fodder country either the ANC does not want to piss voters off or the guy doing the switching here is a total Retard...

Supposed to have had no power last three outages.....just seems to stay on....or the wrong people are pushing the buttons and ****ing it all up....people not supposed to get it get blackouts.....and I just purr along.

Sly, scheming anc or just more stupidity...I cannot say.

So over these Morons trying to run a Country. They do not have a clue

That thing called planning....Eish....we don't know that word. But we like the munny we are being payed for doing fokkol useful.

Grrrrrrr