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Thu, Sep. 29th, 2016 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
WOW. THIS CERTAINLY HAS BEEN A WEEK. JESUM CHRISTMAS.
So, because there's only a slim chance that this would make world news, yesterday this MASSIVE ARSE STORM happened, which apparently in some places was like a category 2 cyclone. As a result, THIS HAPPENED. TWENTY TWO TIMES. Those things hold up the power lines that carry power from Victoria to SA, and 22 of them fell over. 3:48pm, the entire state of South Australia lost power. We looked like this and also this.
At work, we spent about half an hour just hanging in reception, sitting in the dark, intermittently trying to get onto the SA Power Networks website to try and get an eta for our power, but (unsurprisingly, in hindsight) couldn't get through. Phone internetting in general was frigging impossible. Couple of customers came in telling us about chaos on the roads because the traffic lights being out, and even the CBD was in blackout. 'Wouldn't it be funny if the whole city was out?' we laughed. YEP. By 4:20 we gave up, realising we weren't going to be reconnected for a while, and went home.
Google, in a wild display of optimism, predicted it'd take me 27 minutes longer than usual to get home, and also recommended that I'd save ten minutes by going through the CBD. Which. No, Google. I'll normally trust your judgement on traffic, but nnnnnno way in hell am I driving through the CBD with no traffic lights. Also it took about an hour longer than normal, which wasn't really so bad, considering. Cos of course, every set of traffic lights out, we don't have enough cops to man every one of them to direct traffic.
Got home, lit candles and used the last remaining dingey daylight to tidy the house a bit, put away the stuff I'd bought on the weekend, then ran a nice long bath with the plan of going to bed once I got bored. 7:30 the power blipped back on again, so I didn't have to go to bed with an apple and a bowl of Weet-Bix for dinner.
And apparently we're due to have more of that in the next, well, now-ish, apparently. GOODIE.
So, because there's only a slim chance that this would make world news, yesterday this MASSIVE ARSE STORM happened, which apparently in some places was like a category 2 cyclone. As a result, THIS HAPPENED. TWENTY TWO TIMES. Those things hold up the power lines that carry power from Victoria to SA, and 22 of them fell over. 3:48pm, the entire state of South Australia lost power. We looked like this and also this.
At work, we spent about half an hour just hanging in reception, sitting in the dark, intermittently trying to get onto the SA Power Networks website to try and get an eta for our power, but (unsurprisingly, in hindsight) couldn't get through. Phone internetting in general was frigging impossible. Couple of customers came in telling us about chaos on the roads because the traffic lights being out, and even the CBD was in blackout. 'Wouldn't it be funny if the whole city was out?' we laughed. YEP. By 4:20 we gave up, realising we weren't going to be reconnected for a while, and went home.
Google, in a wild display of optimism, predicted it'd take me 27 minutes longer than usual to get home, and also recommended that I'd save ten minutes by going through the CBD. Which. No, Google. I'll normally trust your judgement on traffic, but nnnnnno way in hell am I driving through the CBD with no traffic lights. Also it took about an hour longer than normal, which wasn't really so bad, considering. Cos of course, every set of traffic lights out, we don't have enough cops to man every one of them to direct traffic.
Got home, lit candles and used the last remaining dingey daylight to tidy the house a bit, put away the stuff I'd bought on the weekend, then ran a nice long bath with the plan of going to bed once I got bored. 7:30 the power blipped back on again, so I didn't have to go to bed with an apple and a bowl of Weet-Bix for dinner.
And apparently we're due to have more of that in the next, well, now-ish, apparently. GOODIE.