Speaking of Power Outages...
Last night the power went out for about the 5th time in the last two weeks. I think it went off a few times after Dave got here but before I did also. When I say "out" or "off", I mean for many hours on end. I'm not counting the occasional flickers.
Yesterday we had a pretty decent storm. Dave came to work to have lunch with me at a local joint. We got caught in the rain, but it's warm enough that being wet doesn't make you cold. Once we got back to my office and ate (I had a saltfish pate and Dave had stewed mutton!), the storm picked up a bit and the power here went off. At work here we have a generator (we have one at home too but are waiting for the landlord's son to get back in town to show us how to use it). So the power was only out for a few seconds. When Dave came to pick me up after work around 6:30, the power was still out down town.
Shortly after we got home, the power went out in our neighborhood and came back on after we'd gone to bed, maybe around 11pm? Saturday night it was from around 8:30pm until maybe 2am?
One annoying thing is that without power, we don't have water because we need the water pump. All this time I'd been afraid of what happens when I'm in the shower and the power goes out. Last night it happened. Lucky for me, the water didn't stop right away as it has before. No idea why not, seems like a fluke, but I got the shampoo out of my hair pretty quickly.
As you may have guessed, the power company here isn't so great. They acquired a new generator last December and haven't figured out how it works yet. (See this local article for a little more info.) Last night it was different spots of the island that lacked power; Saturday and Aug 1 were island-wide. A lot of the big businesses have generators, so during the previous weekend when it was out during the day, we went to K-Mart to cool off since we haven't bought a battery-powered fan yet.
Looks like we need to buy even more candles!
Yesterday we had a pretty decent storm. Dave came to work to have lunch with me at a local joint. We got caught in the rain, but it's warm enough that being wet doesn't make you cold. Once we got back to my office and ate (I had a saltfish pate and Dave had stewed mutton!), the storm picked up a bit and the power here went off. At work here we have a generator (we have one at home too but are waiting for the landlord's son to get back in town to show us how to use it). So the power was only out for a few seconds. When Dave came to pick me up after work around 6:30, the power was still out down town.
Shortly after we got home, the power went out in our neighborhood and came back on after we'd gone to bed, maybe around 11pm? Saturday night it was from around 8:30pm until maybe 2am?
One annoying thing is that without power, we don't have water because we need the water pump. All this time I'd been afraid of what happens when I'm in the shower and the power goes out. Last night it happened. Lucky for me, the water didn't stop right away as it has before. No idea why not, seems like a fluke, but I got the shampoo out of my hair pretty quickly.
As you may have guessed, the power company here isn't so great. They acquired a new generator last December and haven't figured out how it works yet. (See this local article for a little more info.) Last night it was different spots of the island that lacked power; Saturday and Aug 1 were island-wide. A lot of the big businesses have generators, so during the previous weekend when it was out during the day, we went to K-Mart to cool off since we haven't bought a battery-powered fan yet.
Looks like we need to buy even more candles!
posted by Kendra at 8:35 AM
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