Power cut near Port Dickson from midnight 12th July 2010
July 13th, 2010 | by Sean |I was in the shower, covered in soap! It wasn’t so bad without the heater, but the lack of a pump meant that there was only a dribble coming out of the upstairs shower head. It was pitch black in the small wash room so that I struggled to find the door!
I’d been fiddling about with some inverters recently with the idea of selling them online. That was lucky, because there was a car battery and small inverter on the office worktop. I could at least plug in a desklamp. The streetlights have gone off outside, so it really is ‘darkest PD’ at the moment.
The thing that bothers me most about the services failing here is that they all seem to depend on each other. The phone is also dead. I can’t help thinking there must be people having a bad time somewhere in the pitch black and needing to call an ambulance or something. They can’t!
Oh well, I’d better tidy up and go to bed before that battery runs flat – it’s not fully charged. I’m not looking forward to joining the rest of the family in the bedroom, without ceiling fan and aircon, that’s going to be sweaty! I hope you have light, power, fan and aircon wherever you are. My Dell Mini9 was charged, and DiGi’s network is still up, so at least I got my message in a bottle off!
… that’ll teach me to keep the battery charged, just got beeped by the inverter. No light until the morning then. Night!
Update 13th July – power came back just before 2am, according to one of my computers that was set to automatically boot when power is restored. I’m a heavy sleeper, so I was dimly aware of the aircon, ceiling fan, kids’ night-light coming back on, and the street-lights streaming through the open windows and curtains – in a “Wassat? Oh power’s ba…zzzzz” kind of way.