SITREP 20100509
lasting 15 long hours
on 09/10 may 2010
My place was without electric power supply for more than fifteen hours.
No, it is not that a typhoon or any such thing had disrupted the power supply;
and this disruption is strictly localised to a few houses in the immediate neighbourhood
– I can see lights burning bright just across the coconut plantation.
The slightest rain or even the sky getting over cast is enough to disrupt the electric power supply to my house – and few other houses in the locality supplied by the same line are invariable affected for there is no way my house alone can be cut off.
Last night there was a drizzle at around 2000 hrs or so and as usual the power supply was switched off immediately.
Later in the night it came back; that is strictly in the literal sense. The voltage was extremely low and all that would function with this voltage was cfl lamps; even my onida tv which can withstand the lowest voltage was finding it difficult to carry on.
Now a days I do not make any phone calls to the kseb help number 155333 for it does not mak any difference one way or the other as you will soon see. But last night I tried again and telephoned 155333 when I found the voltage persisting at the low level for quite some time – the voltage dipping cannot be due to any problem in the periphery. the fellow said it will be looked into; but nothing happened.
The voltage was at the same level late in the morning today at 1000 hrs when i woke up after a night of simmering heat and plenty of mosquitos for company. I think the supply was restored later at past 1100 or so - I had switched off the mains again after 10 am - the voltage was enough to run the electricity meters and spoil the equipments that are left switched on.
I could not do any work at all but the main problem that I face right now is that all the food that I had stored in the fridge including the milk and ice-cream, that I like so much, had got spoiled. and I am not in any mood to go out and purchase any food.
1730 hrs ist : it is past 1730 hrs over here and the power supply was switched off just now – incidentally the sky is over cast again – but this time it was restored after a couple of minutes.
Usually what happens is that if I am using my desktop when the power failure happens the system in spite of being supported by the ups will shut down ( could be the system has been manipulated that way) and that was one way of disrupting my work. I have found a way out of this predicament ( I think I have mentioned it earlier ).
now a days for most of the time I am using my net book and it is on batteries. Of course as long as the mains power is there I connect it to my 17'' philips monitor but once the power supply is cut off I revert to the net-book screen and will have only the adsl modem connected to the ups and the ups can coolly support the modem alone for hours. And I have full size usb keyboard and mouse and so all the disadvantages of the netbook has been counterd. The result is that the electrical shut down is not at all a viable proposition as far as the gestapi ( gestapo + indian = gestapi ) is concerned.
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The technique is you turn the ignition key just enough to get the power on – you dont have to start the engine. In this position the windshield wipers will function. Switch them on and as they reach the 900 position turn the key off -
brought a couple of bottles of cheap whiskey and then waited outside the grocery store to see if I can make a few purchases.
It was the afternoon session and as usual there was big crowd waiting for the gates to open to get in - there is no fixed time for this. I waited patiently and when the gates were opened stayed back to avoid the crowd and then walked towards the door.
Just as I approached the entrance, the power supply went off and the commander standing at the gate declared that only after the power supply is restored will any more people be let in – only four or five of us were there then.
So I waited and waited and thought better of it and decided that I may as well try the brigade canteen and walked towards the vehicle. Once inside the parking lot I realised that I have left my shopping bag in the slot outside the canteen and so walked back to pick it up.
Well; the power supply in the canteen has been restored and people were being let in.
Could be it is just a co-incidence. But you see; it is the duty of all law abiding citizens of this country to help the gestapi in tackling criminal elements in the society.
could be the real reason for the outcry can be found in a letter i have sent to the SIC in the recent past.
THE TRAVAILS OF THE HOMELESS ( contd. ) :- I am in the process of moving out of this house – I perforce have to within a few days, for I have been given notice - and that means I will be moving house for the third time within the last fifteen months. That is a tremendous achievement on the part of the gestapi.
PS. please see that my blogs are not exactly under my control and the aberrations you see in this aspect are not my handiwork but are persisting in spite of my repeated efforts to correct them ; sorry about that.
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