Darwin power outage

25 public posts in this discussion.

Post 1

.. anyone else get that?

Leanyer, Karama, Parap and Palmy reports so far...

Post 2

Stuart Park too, though Darwin City was uneffected.

Post 3

nope... hahah

Post 4

Palmerston here. Was quite funny - playing Dungeon Siege II on the laptop, the power goes out, me shrugs and continues playing.

To which my wife yells out, "Hey that's not fair! You need to turn that off too!"

hehehehe.

Power comes back on, and I cheekily yell out "Oh, did the power go out??"

Post 5

Yep, Wagaman lost power too

Post 6

moil too

Post 7

Quote from Xaine:

To which my wife yells out, "Hey that's not fair! You need to turn that off too!"

:D

My mums pissed coz she missed the 1st 30mins of (Duncan)Mc'clouds Daughters lol.

Post 8

Nothing in Woodleigh Gardens end of Leanyer. Was driving down Leanyer Drv when it went out... got very dark :)

Post 9

Humpty Doo was fine.

Post 10

Alawa and brinkin

Post 11

where i am in karama didnt get it

Post 12

ffs power outages, I was in cisco class, and just finished setting up the router to talk to the main host, when the power went out :(

Home machine was fine, /me taps UPS

NHJ

Post 13

woot go ups :)

Post 14

Cazalys area was fine

Post 15

Uni went out but Nightcliff was perfectly fine. All the routers went out when I was finishing the last task as well :(.

Post 16

where i am in Karama was fine aswell

Post 17

/me just bought UPS

Post 18

Quote from IvoMan:
/me just bought UPS

I'd quote this as-is, but the forum is teh stupid and won't let me.

So "me too".

Post 19

Quote from tn1:
ffs power outages, I was in cisco class, and just finished setting up the router to talk to the main host, when the power went out :(

Home machine was fine, /me taps UPS

NHJ

Im pretty sure thats what caused the power outage, Howzer, next time let me configure the router :D

Post 20

Power + water have anounced today that there could be power outages between monday and friday. in the areas of darwin through to palmerston.
They would like to appoligise for these intruptions in ad vance to save time later.
That is all.

Post 21

ok, so how much would it be to get a big generator to run to the house? :)

Post 22

I think bunnings sells cheap ones. No idea on pricing

Post 23

Ok walked out side there are 6 no wait.. 7 power and water trucks 2 cars and one big transformer thing .... i donno what there doing.. but there cutting power lines down.. from what i can see.. Im wondering if i should shut down my PC...

Funny thing.. 3 people are actually doing work 1 lollipop man and 2 dudes in the cherry picker.. the other 12 of them are watching...

Post 24

They're doing what good PowerWater employees do!

Joking, people ;)

Post 25

They would be the Union reps, making sure no one is asked to do anything outside of their award.
Or supervisors.