On Monday afternoon at about 4:45 our apartment lost power, I thought maybe it was just our unit and we had blown a fuse. So I stuck my head into our hallway and sure enough it was our entire floor and most likely our building as a whole. Chris and I made the trip down our 11 flights of stairs to our lobby, where we found many of our fellow residents opting to wait for the power to come on rather than take the stairs. We wandered over to our gym, hoping we could kill some time there - only to find that they had lost power too. Come to find out the entire CBD had lost power. It wasn't until much later that evening we found out what had happened.
This gas explosion caused a major blackout during peak rush hour traffic and was out for nearly 4 hours with out any real explanation from the Sydney Authorities.
I understand that outages are bound to happen from time to time especially when there is an accident involved, but as far as I know the Energy Australia company is still not sure as to what caused the surge.
I was pretty sure that would be the end of the energy issues - at least the end of it for one week, but I guessed wrong. This morning (Saturday) at about 10:25am while in the shower we lost power AGAIN! And let me tell you it is no fun being caught in the dark while all soaped up - and of course I immediately got soap in my eye making matters even more comical. I thought once again it was just our building but no sir - it was the entire CBD again.
And if I thought being caught in the shower was bad luck...Chris had headed into work for a few hours to get some work done and he too had lost power - all the way up on the 43rd floor of the AMP Building. Our friend Kari had also gone in to get some work finished up, and her husband Joel and son Ethan had gone into the office to hang out while she worked away. So the four of them waited for about 40 minutes before deciding that they would go ahead and start to make their way down the 45 flights. They made it out safe and sound, but not more than 10 minutes after they were down the power came back on.
It is safe to say we did NOT have the last laugh....and I missed Saturday morning cartoons because of it.
Sigh.
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