The back of the truck parked along the side of the road, fixing the power lines, reads "towards power all day everyday."
It's a lofty goal.
Electricity is actually fairly decent here, but they're repairing the transformers for the next week. It's been nearly 24 hours without city power, and there has been less than 10 hours total in the last 5 days.
But we have generators here. We have a heavy-duty generator at our office on a serious automatic switchover and startup device that generates three phase power and is designed to run 24/7. We have to protect our cold-chained drugs, after all.
At the house, where only comfort and some perishable food is at stake, we have a much more puny generator that has to be (*gasp*) started up manually. This runs the security lighting, the refrigerators, one washing machine and a single socket in the whole house.
(That socket is located in someone's room. We may or may not have plugged the toaster into that socket during an especially ill-timed blackout. The cord may or may not have been too short to set the toaster on anything so we may or may not have stood there with a toaster in our arms for four loads of toast. It's all speculation at this point.)
So we suffer on, with internet and air conditioning at the office, but candlelight and gas cookers at the house.
Not too bad.
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