Woo! Load shedding, woo!

[Mister 44]

We've just recorded our first loadshedding related casualty: Chest freezer went "Yippee ki-yay" on our asses. So tomorrow I go shopping courtesy of FNB's overdraft facility.

 

[Solitude]

We've just recorded our first loadshedding related casualty: Chest freezer went "Yippee ki-yay" on our asses. So tomorrow I go shopping courtesy of FNB's overdraft facility.

That sucks Mister 44. Our casualty so far has been the Blu-Ray player. At least I think it's probably because of load shedding.

 

[Mister 44]

That sucks Mister 44. Our casualty so far has been the Blu-Ray player. At least I think it's probably because of load shedding.

Well, to be honest I saw it coming. The chest freezer hasn't been healthy over the last year. Twice repaired and the repairman said it's going to go once loadshedding hits again so I was just cheering it on after every dip. I'm just pissed that it went on the day we did our monthly shopping

 

[mk786]

What Stage 4 load shedding will look like

 

[blaaislaai]

Stage1 today

 

[Kwaai]

Stage1 today

Yep and it started after my area had to be off. So yeah no outages here either

 

[BeoTeK]

Yep and it started after my area had to be off. So yeah no outages here either

yeah, same for me
but I'll probably have to work

 

[Graal]

I'm probably going to go off despite our schedule stating we shouldn't. Stellenbosch regularly gets screwed like that.

 

[Hagan]

We just had our share.

 

[BeoTeK]

Nothing since Saturday's 4 hour stint.

 

[murfle]

I'm trying to parse out the data from loadshedding.eskom.co.za for our intranet... There's lots of APIs for municipalities, but the official eskom site is the only one I can find with our data... And it all comes in HTML. Buh.

 

[Ichigo]

Nothing planned today so 4 days with nothing so far.

 

[blaaislaai]

Eskom Hld SOC Ltd @Eskom_SA · 5h 5 hours ago
#load_shedding prognosis for today is medium for the morning and very high for the evening & dependent on the performance of the power plant

I guess we might get something for this evening

Addition:

Tuesday (21 April): The capacity available to meet that evening’s peak demand is 29 615
MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 32 020 MW.

Wednesday (22 April): The capacity available to meet that evening’s peak demand is 29
615 MW (including open cycle gas turbines) while demand is forecast at 31 986 MW.

 

[Hagan]

This tweet just came through...

#PowerAlert: Eskom regrets to announce that Stage 1 #load_shedding will be implemented from 17:00 to 22:00 today.

I hope that if we're affected, it's from 16:00 or 17:00 - 18:30 again... That is preferred.

 

[matt]

If it stays Stage 1, I should be in the clear for today. If it moves up to stage 2, then I'm out from 18:00 - 22:30

 

[Hagan]

If it stays Stage 1, I should be in the clear for today. If it moves up to stage 2, then I'm out from 18:00 - 22:30

We're scheduled for...

22:00 - 00:30. Worst possi--- wait... Hmm... :wtf:

 

[Solitude]

If it stays Stage 1, I should be in the clear for today. If it moves up to stage 2, then I'm out from 18:00 - 22:30

You and I will most likely be without power tomorrow evening.

 

[matt]

You and I will most likely be without power tomorrow evening.

Ah Geez, you're right, and it the kakkest time of day too. Maybe we're lucky and they don't do load shedding tomorrow.

 

[Lydon]

No load shedding for us today. Woo

 

[murfle]

This tweet just came through...



I hope that if we're affected, it's from 16:00 or 17:00 - 18:30 again... That is preferred.

This happened yesterday as well. We were scheduled for 16:00-18:30, but they never shut us off here. I guess since they missed the starting gun (load shedding started an hour afterwards) they just left us alone.
Works for me.