When we overlooked.
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
September 16, 2020 10:14pm CST
I was scrolling on my phone for some updates when at 8:15AM, we had unannounced power interruption. Great! My 2 other phones have about 25% draining batteries.
I immediately went down at the living room, ranting why we had the disruption. Sister and neighbors too, were ranting.
Sister said, 'if only she had a mobile phone that has load, she can call the electricity cooperative'. I told her,' the phone of big brother that he left me has load where she can still use'.
I then went up the stairs and upon seeing our altar, I thought why the 2 electric candles are lit. I paused for a moment, then exclaimed, "We have light now". That was last 9:15AM- an hour of brownout.
Sis also said she was just glancing at the altar, noticing the electric candles but did not mind it. She reacted when I said my exclamation.
"Well, that happens when 2 senior citizens are so concentrated in calling the electric cooperative, and overlooking that there is already light".
Our minds met in unison.
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9 responses
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
17 Sep 20
Glad it's back. One hour itself is too long for power cut.2 people like this
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
no, for us here, an hour without power us like 10 minutes of silence. we are already accustomed to 8-12 hours of power interruption.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
17 Sep 20
@ridingbet That's too long. What's the reason behind such long power cut? We too get frequent power cuts sometimes when there is thunder, heavy rain or storm. Luckily we have instant power back up in our apartment.
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@allen0187 (59648)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
Expecting a power outage tonight. It was announced yesterday. Problem is, the power outage happened earlier than scheduled.
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@allen0187 (59648)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
It hasn't yet.
Moved to a different location with power but problem is the internet connection is not as stable so I couldn't work tonight.
Just doing some posting here in myLot.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
18 Sep 20
@ridingbet Electricity is not expensive here, I noticed that my mom in Italy paid more than we pay here, we have two computers on all the day and many appliances, she used the electricity very little.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Sep 20
@LadyDuck that is great. here, our bill for last month's consumption went up by P10 only. it is not the amount, but the consumption that my sister is more concentrated to see.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Sep 20
but during these times that electricity bills soar high, some even wish for longer power disruption.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
It's good it was only for an hour. We usually have 12-hour power interruptions here. That's why I have several powerbanks to charge my devices...
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Sep 20
powerbanks are indeed handy. i gave a piece of this as an exchange gift to a colleague. it howver was accidentally tripped off my colleague's hand several minutes after i gave her; the pb did not fnction after that.
it was not my fault, so i did not replace it anymore.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
18 Sep 20
@ridingbet Awww!
Yes, it is handy and very useful. I keep one(the lightest) inside my bag that I usually bring when going out and another two at home.
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@AKRao24 (27422)
• India
17 Sep 20
@ridingbet , Yes I have gone through those discussions where you have mentioned about living without electricity for 45 days! That was in one of the discussions initiated by me!
I couldn't follow your first and also the last paragraph! I couldn't get what is the problem if I address more than one person as 'you people' ?
I am confused why and where from this HomoSapiens entered in the response?
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
excuse me, why the rant? i say so because why should you address us as YOU PEOPLE? of course i am a specie of the HomoSapiens.
and i hope you were able to read some of my discussions before when we were stricken with super typhoons, that we did not have electricity and water supply for 45 days to 2 months, but still we manage.
so, is opening up the brownout for an houe against the policy of this site?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
18 Sep 20
yes, the magnetic eyes of senior citizens.
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