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Tag Archives: Loadshedding
Loadshedding
Sunday Dear Elsie Today was a peaceful day. We went to church, did a little shopping, went to friends for lunch and read. The load-shedding schedule in South Africa has been a bit of a nightmare recently. We are up … Continue reading
Load Shedding Level 6
Sunday Today was the day… We went to level 6 load shedding. It started at 4am this morning, so we woke up with the lights of Fish Hoek mostly off. While we have a solid solar system, load shedding still … Continue reading
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Tagged Fish Hoek Beach, Loadshedding
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Loadshedding on Steroids & Kiara Update
I’m writing this in darkness! At least my laptop has plenty of battery. We are loadshedding schedule 3B or something like that. For us in region 8 it means yesterday and today, the power was off from 10am to 12-30pm … Continue reading
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Load-shedding 101
1-47pm Load-shedding – it actually has a official definition… It first became famous in South Africa back in 2008 when one Sunday, suddenly, with no warning, there was a massive Cape Town wide blackout. The power was out for … Continue reading