My Creative Writing: Power Outage (The Reason I Couldn't Blog On Steemit)
Hello everyone, I have been offline for days and the reason is quite obvious, people living in my region including fellow steemians were being disturbed by the same issue.
For some days we have been experiencing power outage, because of power tripping from the 132kvA line that has been feeding us electric light. I was thinking it's something the authority could resolve withing hours but little did I know it will take them days to do so, this is one the disadvantages of having authorities that are not accountable and swift.
I have always wanted to share my daily routines with everyone on steemit but Sunday, they made it really bad. Internet was lost and most especially businesses lost enormous money trying to purchase fuel for generator to power up their business places.
One casualty was recorded in the hospital where I live quite close by, it was reported that after the light tripped off, a certain patient that was on life support convulsed, this was so heartbreaking to hear.
Now we were forced to pay money to charge our devices because to purchase fuel now, it's very costly and it will take about 5 litres to lit up our generator so the total blackout had a toll on us even my business because most of my drinks were not cold enough for customers to buy and I lost such patronages because of light issue.
I honestly wish the government can do something about the regular tripping off of light and bring a permanent solution to it. This has cost us a whole lot of money running a business where there is no electricity, the little profit we make, we use it to refuel generators and the noise pollution that comes from generators are so drastic.
I couldn't get any of my devices on Sunday even my husband's own so people that tried to reach out to us couldn't because of this issue. I don't know how much I have lost so far but I know if I had invested it in my business, it would have gone a long way and I would've seen returns.
But I have collected my phone and right now we have electricity but I don't know how long it will last, because definitely I know there is going to be another tripping off that may last for over a week and till then I am still hopeful that the rightful authority will see to this.