Summer And Power Outages,how Well Prepared Are We?

[Somewhereinba]

Had our first power outage last night for about 5 hours, big storm came through.

 

[mc kenna]

Did you get that Browning from General Roca?

NO , actually he borrowed from me!!!

 

[jantango]

Power was cut today at 11 hs. in Balvanera (around the 2300 block of Chile) and restored at 2:50pm.

I'm glad the refrigerator was almost empty. Ice in the freezer lasted four hours.

 

[Rich One]

Since sunday getting short interruptions of Cable vision , no TV or interenet, for like 15 minutes each time. In the middle of connections to Bank page. Ministro Devido said just Now that the Consumption is at a record today, blackouts will be more likely this summer.

 

[Rich One]

.According to Macri garbage recycling Plan. How to cope with lack of aircon

 

[ghost]

Record power useage today and it's just the beginning.

 

[dennisr]

Long night for some:
http://www.iprofesional.com/notas/176609-Los-cortes-masivos-de-luz-agudizan-el-malestar-social-y-el-Gobierno-los-atribuye-a-la-pujanza-econmica

 

[scotttswan]

We didn't have power in Balvanera a couple of days ago, lasted from 4-5ish pm until 9:30ish am the next day.

Is this their plan on saving money?

 

[internationalguy]

.According to Macri garbage recycling Plan. How to cope with lack of aircon

That's gross

 

[arlean]

A friend of mine who lives a few blocks away from me was without power for over a week--I have no clue why but she had to carry water up 7 flights of stairs to her apartment. Also, I was in Argentina in 2008. I got word my mother was dying and tried to get back to BA for a flight and it was awful. I can't remember how long it took now to get back. Farmers had blocked the highways. It was over the taxes on soybeans. I kept in touch here and heard that food got pretty scarce before that strike was over and people could not get pretty important stuff.

Ever since that happened, and then my friend was without power for that long I have thought about this question McKenna has proposed. I also read a portion of a book by a man who was in B.A. during the 2001 crisis who was without power for a month. It sounded pretty catastrophic. I checked with people in my area who said things went on here in Palermo normally during that time but when you know it has happened elsewhere, it makes sense to take a lesson from it. For my part, I would be in bad shape if that happened tomorrow! So it's a very good question.