Load Shedding

[Rob Fisher]

Stock up on 18650's vaping peeps! Load Shedding is upon us yet again!

How may of you have generators from the last Load Shedding period? If you do then it's time to have them serviced!

 

[shabbar]

eish load shedding is kak !!

generator is all good probably just needs to be fuelled up

 

[andro]

When is this gonna start?

 

[shabbar]

started already in my area (Wilropark) jhb

 

[andro]

Been living in za ( cape town ) for 4.5 years and luckily never have it yet . Not looking forward this if is the future

 

[shabbar]

highly doubt there is load shedding in ct , but here in jhb there is , no power for about an hour or 2 .

 

[Derick]

Centurion is also down - has been since around 7:30

 

[devdev]

Fark sake - hate it when Eskom sheds their load everywhere.

I got the SMS from Eyewitness news confirming that it will be implemented across the country until the weekened.

If anyone can get near a Consol shop I highly recommend going to get the Consol Solar Power jars.

They have a solar panel in the top, and charge the batteries. When you want light you just flip the switch and you have power for about 4 hours. At R150 a unit its a good deal

 

[Silver]

Also got the EWN sms @devdev

In Oaklands here (near Norwood). Power has been down since 9am

Not sure how long it will be down for, but someone said for 2 hours at a time

Am hoping

 

[shabbar]

geez thats 3 hours already , our power just went out about 30min now .

 

[shabbar]

@Silver 2hours is more or less right

 

[Rowan Francis]

bryanston from 8:45 till 10:45 today ...

 

[Riaz]

cape town is also suffering guys

tokai, ottery all off

dont know bout other areas

these @ssholes could of atleast send out a warning.

 

[BhavZ]

For the cape town guys see attached:

Check the main station doc to see which station your area falls under and then check the schedule to know when your station is going down.

 

[Riaz]

thanks @BhavZ

 

[shabbar]

ok so i was wrong about cape town .

apparently the whole country is experiencing load shedding

 

[shabbar]

cape town is also suffering guys

tokai, ottery all off

dont know bout other areas

these @ssholes could of atleast send out a warning.

eskom declared a state of emergency this morning due to the coals being we due to the heavy rains

 

[devdev]

Guys where did you get those PDF schedules from? I want to get them for Jozi

 

[shabbar]

@devdev check the eskom website

 

[devdev]

I did, all it offers is that load shedding will take place between 06h00 and 22h30 in my area.

A little ambiguous perhaps? Bloody civil serpents

 

[BhavZ]

Wet coals, really, that is freaking inefficient of Eskom and negligent.

Coal being like the primary ingredient, one would think that they would find ways to keep the stuff dry.

 

[vaalboy]

Yip, we having it today too - been off since 9am. Useless bunch of beep beep!!

 

[Riaz]

Wet coals, really, that is freaking inefficient of Eskom and negligent.

Coal being like the primary ingredient, one would think that they would find ways to keep the stuff dry.

exactly!!!

dont be surprised if they push up electricity costs again to 'keep the coals dry'

 

[BhavZ]

I did, all it offers is that load shedding will take place between 06h00 and 22h30 in my area.

A little ambiguous perhaps? Bloody civil serpents

Sorry dude, mine was sent to me via email.

 

[shabbar]

exactly!!!

dont be surprised if they push up electricity costs again to 'keep the coals dry'

dude don't even go there , everything is already ridiculously expensive as it as