It rained at last but……
@Professor2010 (20162)
India
May 16, 2010 8:00am CST
Three days ago it rained at last in the noon, 
but there was storm and strong wind, many trees were uprooted, roads were blocked. The overhead electrical transmission lines were broken, power was restored after 36 hours, but it is never steady since, it fails every 15-20 minutes. I am trying to post and respond in mylot for last three days but it was not possible, either the power or the net keeps failing.
The worst situati
on is, there is no water in the overhead tank on my roof.
We depend upon the water that is supplied by the public works department, the timing is 6am to 8am and 4pm to 6pm; during these hours there is no power, so we can’t pump up the water to the tank. Some have submersible pumps and deep bore wells in their compounds, they pump up water when they like.
I phoned to the electrical engineer, the answer is; ‘What can we do, it is with the grid, the power trips.’ I feel so helpless. What is the situation at your place regarding power failure, water supply, rains and storms?
Please share
Happy posting, cheers, have a great day.
Prof
but there was storm and strong wind, many trees were uprooted, roads were blocked. The overhead electrical transmission lines were broken, power was restored after 36 hours, but it is never steady since, it fails every 15-20 minutes. I am trying to post and respond in mylot for last three days but it was not possible, either the power or the net keeps failing.
The worst situation is, there is no water in the overhead tank on my roof.We depend upon the water that is supplied by the public works department, the timing is 6am to 8am and 4pm to 6pm; during these hours there is no power, so we can’t pump up the water to the tank. Some have submersible pumps and deep bore wells in their compounds, they pump up water when they like.
I phoned to the electrical engineer, the answer is; ‘What can we do, it is with the grid, the power trips.’ I feel so helpless. What is the situation at your place regarding power failure, water supply, rains and storms?
Please share
Happy posting, cheers, have a great day.
Prof1 person likes this
8 responses
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
16 May 10
WEll here we dont have much problems withtat but we have had very high winds.
ANd in TEnn whgen tornado hit my home town a couple of weeks ago they were with out power for days and the roof went of the water copany so dont think they had much water either.
NAshville Tenn told the people to be sure to boil water before using as every thing was flooding out!
Bad every where isnt it!?
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Thanks for response Madam, welcome always.
Happy posting. God bless you.
Cheers.
Prof
Happy posting. God bless you.
Cheers.
Prof
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
17 May 10
dear professor,
we have experienced drought for about 3 months and farmers were very much affected. my concern was the electricity. 
we are very dependent on hydro plants but due to the drought the dams were almost dry hence it cannot produce the electricity. we had been experiencing rotational brownouts since then and until now. the rains have started to fall and we are happy but the brownouts have stayed on. i guess in a few weeks everything will be back to normal.
have a nice day.
ann
we are very dependent on hydro plants but due to the drought the dams were almost dry hence it cannot produce the electricity. we had been experiencing rotational brownouts since then and until now. the rains have started to fall and we are happy but the brownouts have stayed on. i guess in a few weeks everything will be back to normal.
have a nice day.
ann
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Hi ann dear
Thanks for sharing situations in Davao.
Welcome always.
Cheers.
Prof
Cheers.
Prof
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
That is good.
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome always.
Cheers.
Prof
Cheers.
Prof
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
17 May 10
Hi Professor! Sorry for your problems with storms and electricity~
I know how upsetting this must be for you and your family! So
far, as I have said before we haven't hit the hot temps here
yet! In fact, we went backwards so far that it was amost in the
freezing temps here in the last few days! Now it is back in the
70's, but still not promising to stay there! So, maybe another
month and we will also start seeing the high 90's and trouble
with the electricity! We have had plenty of rain and snow this
past winter so I don't think water shortage will be an issue!
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Let me hope, you wont face any water shortage..
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome always.
Cheers.
Prof
Cheers.
Prof
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
17 May 10
Hi Bhuvan, it must have been great to have rain at last after all that sweltering heat for more than a month or so, but I am sorry abouut the water situation, what a paradox 
.I am at Bangalore for a week and yesterday we had thunder showers that caused a lot of damage with fallen trees and power cut . But still it was very welcome because it brought the temperature drastically and today is a cool pleasant day...All the best and hope your water supply resumes at the earliest ..
.I am at Bangalore for a week and yesterday we had thunder showers that caused a lot of damage with fallen trees and power cut . But still it was very welcome because it brought the temperature drastically and today is a cool pleasant day...All the best and hope your water supply resumes at the earliest ..1 person likes this
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Hi Kiran
I am afraid, your garden might have been effected..
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome always.
Cheers.
Prof
Cheers.
Prof
@yaya_cau (2)
• China
17 May 10
Electrical cut off may help you leave all your time for thinking your business.
As you know,we are so busy at present and can't stop even a while for ourselves.
Time is flying,maybe 10 yeas later,we'll regret for getting nothing but busy of
earn our life.We need time to think and look into our hearts,maybe 10 minutes will enough each day,please enjoy your without electrical,internet and so on.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to mylot and my discussions.
Cheers.
Prof
Cheers.
Prof
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
22 May 10
Hello Professor. I am so sorry to hear the inconvenience caused by the heavy rain in your region. Yesterday we also started to have rain and it is still raining today and it is cool because of the rain. It is reported that it will rain tomorrow as well. What is good is that it will stops for a while after raining for a certain length of time. So we don't have the problem mentioned in your discussion. Take care, friend.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
16 May 10
hi proffessor I hate to say this but here in the US in California we have been lucky so far, no torrential rains and no power outages at
all.We have an adequate water supply from the city. in the hottest weather we a lot of times have revolving brown outs which means that at certain hours a lot of businesses may see their electricity shut down for several hours, homeowners are seldom done that to but are asked to shut down all electrical things not in use and set the thermostat lower on air conditioning and preferably not have it on at all. We had adequate rains earlier but not yet like we normally used to get here
in the winter. what we have had most of the time is drought, lack of water but no water rationing exactly just in the summer people are asked to not sprinkle their lawns on certain days or they will be fined or wash their cars or do laundry.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
17 May 10
Hi Hatley
Thanks for sharing
Happy posting. God bless you.
Cheers.
Prof
Happy posting. God bless you.
Cheers.
Prof