Monday, June 12, 2006
unusual MONDAY
its quite interesting to live in a four season country. u never know what the weather brings really....
we woke up to an extremely strong, gusty wind this morning.. it wasn't chilly cold but u can hear the trees bustling and see the branches and leaves sway from one side to another... as usual, woke up, took a warm shower and go to work.... had breakfast at work and got ready to start.. at 8.30ish... POM! the power went out... we tot it was just another power failure.. but not till we know what has really happened!!!
Power restored to Auckland after blackout Power has been restored to most of Auckland after a blackout - thought to be caused by a storm sweeping the country - brought the city to a standstill. More than 700,000 people...
Icy blast causes havoc throughout Canterbury Heavy snow throughout Canterbury today collapsed roofs, cut transport links, closed schools, felled...
auckland has the "tame-est" weather compared to other parts of nz but seems like this winter, we are not spared...
the strong winds apparently snapped one of the earth wires!
A spokeswoman for power company Vector said the cause of the Auckland blackout was a fault on the Transpower network. She said: "An earth wire has snapped and fallen across the 110 kv feeder from the Otahuhu substation."
so auckland went without power. we are all stranded in the office.. looking at the crap gloomy, dark weather... on the other hand, we do not want to leave the office as well ( except to go home lah) bcos the shops, fast food rest, restaurants are all closed cos of the power cut... waited and waited. Boss came over and say that by 12 if the power is not back on.... we will go home.... OH MAN!!! just excellent news.... cos i just want to go home and Zzzz.... loiter ard, did some clearing of old paperworks and at 11.25, my boss was walking ard getting details of where we stay and stuff ( so that transport can be arrange/ car pool etc)
i was all excited when she was doing that but my happiness was SHORT LIVED!!!! piu...... the lights were back on... DAMN!!!! just half and hr more and i'll be on my way home..... wat disappointment man.. really!!! so we went back to our seats BUT was told not to rush to log back on as the system " has just woken up fm a DEEP DEEP SLEEP" so it took another hr or so for business to get back on....
was really fun tho... sth that i had not experience b4.... winds are still howling now... and its really really cold.
and i was just wondering... a country like NZ still have power lines running above ground... its true that the country is big compared to Spore.. and its expensive to have them underground... but sth has to be done really... and this is not the first time that NZ went without power becos of weather... in 1998, Auckland went without power as well... how bad it is an image to the world....
This ended @ 8:00 PM
