Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Power Cuts
12-2am, 5-8:30am, 11:30-4pm, 6-8:30pm, 9:30-10:30pm
Those are the hours from midnight to midnight yesterday that we did not have power. I know it’s all part of the adventure!: getting ready by flashlight and taking a shower at night by flashlight. It sure makes life more interesting (frustrating and rather warm) sometimes though! We have a generator, but its way too expensive to run all those hours. We turn it on for a couple hours every night when the power goes off at either 5:30 or 8, or in the day for about two hours at a time if someone is doing laundry, etc. It’s crazy how dependant we are on power though! Computers (my good battery died in transit to Africa), fans, printers, coffeepots, microwaves, lights, chargers, fridges, eventually water, etc. And its crazy how dependant we, I am at least, on my computer! My organization, entertainment, work, correspondence, all on a little box that requires currant! On a larger note: its really hard for people to pull out of poverty if water and electricity are never a given, are often absent. And no one has a good solution that doesn’t require a massive influx of money without resigning la liberté of autonomy.
edit: ha, 8:30, not 8:80!
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Comments (5)
what time is 8:80? is that like 9:20?
actually...i just thought about it and telling time like that is fun. for instance...it's like 2:110pm here ;)
also..."currant" is a spice. "current" would be electricity.
huh, your post was thought provoking. I hardly ever think about how dependent I am on power either. - There was this one time though right before my senior year of high school, the power was knocked out for all of south-easter Michigan and north-eastern Ohio. It was the hottest week of the year - upper 90s. Stores were giving out frozen food becasue it wouldn't keep and some people drove 2 hours north to Holly, MI to fill up gas containers so that they could run their genorators! The schools that had started that week were cancled and any jobs that weren't emergency were pretty much cancled too.
I hope thee electricity shortage gets figured out for you all seeing as you live in Africa and temps probably excede 90 degrees on an average day : )