Chaos in the city: a blackout left more than 600,000 users without power

[Vossos]

Sweet summer child . 10 years ago it was the most common thing. I was lucky to live next to the hospital, so we never experienced more than hour long shortages, but I had colleagues at work who were living months without electricity, in tenth floor also. Only thing working was gas, showering in fitness, eating in shopping mall.. Terrible stuff.

I am inland now, and here every wind or lightning throw it out, but it comes back in few hours. Extremely bad network, mercado se arregla solo etc.

I’m sure that’s true but I think I had particularly bad luck. I’m currently wheelchair bound and I’d ordered a Rappi. The lift was out of action and I’m on the fifth floor so I had to wave goodbye to that 20,000 pesos and eating to instead lay claustrophobically in my melting apartment awaiting power. The worst tease was there being a pool a few floors up but out of reach in my current condition

 

[Ries]

The last 2 weeks are the first time I’ve experienced a power cut since my first time in BA in 2022 in Cañitas. It’s been much hotter prior so I’m not sure it can be purely blamed on air conditioning.

I have owned an apartment here since 2007. There have been power cuts pretty much every summer since then. It totally depends on the weather. A few years ago, there was a very hot summer and they were burning tires in the street after 3 days of no power in Pomeya.
If you read the article Iinked to, it tells about how Edenor had better infrastructure than Edesur- and hence, your likelihood of outages depends on how recently either one has upgraded transformers and cable.
This stuff is almost all underground- watching them replace a 2 ton transformer by using a crane to raise it from the sub-sub suelo under the street is a pretty impressive sight.
there absolutely is a relationship between age of infrastructure, affluence of neighborhood, and airconditioners, with outages.