Light Within: What You Do During Electric Load Shedding

What You Do During Electric Load Shedding
Friday, 1 May 2009

During planned and announced electric load shedding (6 to 8 hours) I think of how to adjust with new lifestyle without electricity. (Yes, wiser people always advise and tell that we should try to adopt this new lifestyle). And when it comes unannounced and unplanned, I play snake on my mobile (the only gadget alive during shutdown) and think electric crises will dome the sitting government. People with no solution in sight and no respite from hot and humid weather, and those who still cant afford uninterrupted power supply equipment, and cant go to Europe and or to local hill stations to for summers, may come out and create a law and order situation adding another dimension to existing ciaos. Here I am not talking of those who have to make their living and earn income for them and their families and cant due to power outage. Nor I am talking of loss to industry.

Please share your thought here. What you think and do during planned and or unplanned electric outage.

Labels: Load Shedding

posted by S A J Shirazi @ Friday, May 01, 2009,

10 Comments:

At 3:47 PM PKST, Anonymous said...: Ya Shirazi, I blame America, India and now Taliban.
At 4:00 PM PKST, Muhammad Yaqoob said...: What can one do except louding the below:
We should not blame any one but our Pakistani Politicians those are in power now a day. They really suck.

Where is the CJ and his suo motto actions, why is he not responding to issues like these, that leads me to believe that the return of the CJ was deal.

Where hell is Mian Shahbaz Sharif [CM-Punjab] with his so called slogan [Khadem-e-Alla], why is he not singing the Habib Jalibs poems now on? That leads me again to believe that he also came back through a deal.
At least the government should offer a similar deal to the public also.
At 4:06 PM PKST, Anonymous said...: Ya Shirazi, I blame America, India and now Taliban.
At 4:26 PM PKST, Tayyab Ilyas said...: I wait for electricity, and think how can we get rid of that and only one answer comes to my mind that we should get rid of these .... politicians

Let me tell you why we are facing load shading.
In Pakistan we 70% of power generated by wapda and 30% by private companies.

Wapda is responsible to collect all revenue against electricity either it is produced by wapda or private companies.

40% to total income goes to wapda in which they run complete system and produce 70% of eletricity and 60% goes to private companies who produce only 30%.

This is all done by our ... politicians who take commission form foreign private companies.

Aay ALLAH Help Us!!!!
At 7:02 PM PKST, DuFFeR - ڈفر said...: normally load shedding duration lasts an hour
so in that case whole hour is spent in abusing govt and wapda
and the level of abusing intensity increases when battery of notebook is completely down
At 6:47 AM PKST, Komal said...: Ughhh!! I have to return to Pakistan in about two months and just the thought of piercing heat along no power is giving me a heart attack every instant!

What could I do? Read a book maybe :S

Blaming government and so on won't help. We should acknowledge our fault too. Why on Earth we leave the electric appliances on when they aren't in use? Useless to debate but that's one bitter truth!
At 12:24 PM PKST, Deb S. said...: I don't envy you! Hang in there.
At 1:03 PM PKST, Nabeel said...: I'm tired of blaming politicians, so I day dream about switching my home on solar energy.
Other times I have book 'Veronika decides to die' by 'Paulo Coelho' on my computer table, so as my desktop turns off I look for bookmark in it.
At 9:31 PM PKST, Anonymous said...: Komal: Wish I could read a book during Load Shedding!
At 8:57 PM PKT, Samina said...: I wait for electricity, and think how can we get rid of that and only one answer comes to my mind that we should get rid of these .... politicians