What is Going On?
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (40440)
United States
June 9, 2020 11:58am CST
The electricity was out twice for extended periods on Sunday. It was off several times for a few seconds at a time throughout the day. There is no water or technology when the electric shuts down.
The day before that, the water was out for a period. For two days, the phones were not working at all.
We did have rain and a low barometer reading because of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. I did not expect a storm to cause all those problems. But, I wonder if it was the storm or because no one seems to care what happens around here anymore.
Do you have trouble with the utilities? Do you have internet problems that you can't figure out? What do you think is going on?
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
9 Jun 20
Thank you. I know that the utilities here are very old and probably not up to code. They have tried to update them for years but it is a patchwork quilt of workarounds They probably need to update the whole system starting from scratch. I know that won't happen so we just have what we have. They just added the internet to the electric system somehow. No place else has their internet like this.
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
9 Jun 20
So far we don`t have any problem with the utilities here and no internet problem but I think if you have storm there then it can be the cause of the internet or the electricity problem there 
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
9 Jun 20
@akalinus Oh ok. Possible they have some repair going on. You can ask the office maybe they can help you out and clear things up why it shuts down for no reasons 
@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
11 Jun 20
@akalinus Wow, two weeks is way too long to go without power! We used to get frequent power cuts here as well. Because my husband and I are self-employed and mainly work remotely, it started to affect our work. So last year, we got ourselves a small backup system - best decision we ever made! But guess what?! Now that we have backup, the power very seldom goes down.
@akalinus (40440)
• United States
12 Jun 20
@Lushlala I know you have load shedding. We have rolling blackouts in some places. It is the same as load shedding. It is usually when the demand is too high. An electric company in California caused wildfires and much damage. I think they were trying to provide too much or something. I think there are lawsuits going in courtrooms there.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
9 Jun 20
These days internet issues are the worst here
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
9 Jun 20
@amitkokiladitya What did he think the trouble was. Was it your computer or the whole system. There were a couple of days when the internet was very bad.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
9 Jun 20
@akalinus every now and then. .I had to call the technician yesterday
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Jun 20
Yes the internet has been so slow. Think its the Aliens? 
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@Shivram59 (31755)
• India
14 Jul 20
@akalinus There was a time when power supply would get disrupted soever all times in a months.But that's now history.We now never face this problem.And we don't face Internet problems either.
