@Aki I have not said that you should be banned or stopped from posting about this article, I just feel you having to infor the gorup when your power goes off is not appropriate since if everyone was to do that, we would probably have too many mails - that was my point which you seemingly did not get. I may never like what you say, by I will defend your right to say it ~ I have no idea who said that! My other point was that you seem to be haing these blackouts all the time, I seem to be having none - and we in the same country? and we still blame Kenya Power? does that make sense to you? @Steve, please answer this too. ./Ok3ch On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
@Aki dude, you've got no luck....
@Oketch.. about the blackouts I can agree with @Aki on the rural supply sense. I'm curently working on some long term project in some small town near kakamega. Blackouts here are guaranteed to be a daily thing. Worse off when it rains power can go off for even 2 days a stretch, I kid you not. through out the day when there is power you cannot get a straight hour of uninterrupted power. it will go for 3, 5, 10 seconds every 10 to 20 minutes. a UPS here is no luxury, the only way you can get decent work done here is to either get a generator or have solar drive your gear. When we get a full days power it is something to be thankful for. So I guess as far as power goes, kenya is not one country.
KPLC blames the rolling blackouts on trees that have been planted near the power lines in peoples farms. when the trees get wet during the rains the wet leaves on power lines cause the blackouts... who want to argue with that so...
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Okechukwu" <okechukwu@gmail.com> | To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> | Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:50:50 AM | Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] <OT> : No Electricity, No Fuel, No Cooking gas! I need my hot coffee or need some | answers..... | | @Aki either you complain too much or we do not live in the same | country. All the time you have outages I have checked my home | computer and it's always on and since it's UPS can barely do five | minutes, I know there is power. Maybe Kenya Power just doesn't like | your neighborhood, or people near you contribute to your outages by | building high storey's which cannot support the power distribution | in your ares. Cut KP some slack, they have tried given their | resources. | | & I've had no gas for the last 2 months resorting to cooking with | electricity - just to show you how reliable Kenya Power is to me, | and I choose not to complain about the gas! | | I also have failed to understand the meaning of this thread. I | stopped reading it a long time ago since if it's meant to report | power outages, then it's the wrong forum. Maybe a thread to help out | in minimizing outages might be more helpful. If half the people in | this list decided to report when power goes in their neighborhoods, | we would spend a zillion years goes through the mails. | | My 50 dollars worth of thoughts! | | ../Ok3ch | | Sent from my iPad | | On Dec 22, 2011, at 0:06, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote: | | > @Electricity back after a 13 hour outage. All electronics had gone | > dead : computers, phones, door bells etc. Things not looking good | > in the refrigerator, the stored meat has been the first item | > affected and could pose a serious heath hazard..... | > | > I'm really starting to miss staying in urban developed societies, | > it used to be so nice. You would plan your day, and have a very | > productive one. Only those who understand urban life can relate to | > this, not rural folks. Whether Summer or Winter, your daily life | > ran in an organised manner. The bus would show up at exactly the | > same time each day as expected, the underground trains would be | > the same. Night social life went on until 4 or 5am, you would find | > a cab to take you wherever you wanted, and not into into some | > checkpoints of "hatari". Traffic was organised mayhem, you would | > still reach your destination on time no matter what. Your physical | > mail got delivered to your doorstep, the weekends travel would | > always be timed distance/speed = time to destination. All | > household goods were so affordable, interest rates on credti cards | > were super low. You went out to eat great food that was so cheap, | > bought branded clothes that were so affordable etc etc. You went | > out and did grea | t photography, night time pictures, mall pictures until you got | tired. Everything worked so well until you took it as much a part | of life as the oxygen around us. Each morning and each night | delivered its promise as the rising and setting sun did each day. | > | > But in wheeler/dealer, supply/demand economies all the above are | > luxuries. For every problem purposely created, there is a business | > plan that benefits from lack of a normal urban lifestyle thus | > creating new avenues of exploitation but normally hidden as | > regular business. Embraced highly as the growth basis of the | > economies, this is core of the thriving third world. This is the | > rural folks way of thinking, as long as the land is tended to, the | > rains will come and the soil will produce what it is supposed to. | > Only those who are urbanised know what a green house can do, what | > planning is and what projections are. I never seen any urban | > society go hungry, they will put in the more hard work than the | > rural folk and still have food on their plates, pay thier bills | > and raise their families. | > | > Bad choices means a bad future. 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