@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 great 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. Who is the next rural folk to be given control of an urban society?
Rgds.
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