We just had a two hour black out..bad sign i must say...

Hi Letran! I hate blackout too! They sure are very scary! When I was younger we had a major blackout that blew out the power all over the State of NY! Now that was really scary! That was the first time the lights went out all over NY and the whole City of NY was completely dark! It was before 9/11, but I think it might have been in the 1980's! I don't remember how long the power was out, but it was a really long time! We have power outages from time to time where I live, usually in the Summer months due to the overusage of power, but they usually are able to get it back also within a 24 hour period! I always keep emergency supplies on hand, like batteries, flashlights, candles and food! I have a gas stove so that part isn't so bad because I can still cook! But, when the power goes out so does my phone, cable and Internet because they are all connected so I have to make sure my cellphone is always charged just in case!

Well I guess government has announced that there may be blackouts here and there and they will try their best to restore and or avoid getting this during the election. I think this means that we really as consumers put our consumption to the lowest to be able to save and at the same time never overload our power plants so they can distribute the power to everybody. I think we need the cooperation with that one to ensure continous flow of power to everybody.

Hi..Letran The Philippines are so lucky. You have only two hours blackout. I am staying in the IT capital of India,Bangalore. Here in the city there is a declared blackout for two hours. One hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. This is declared one. But there will be undeclared blackout will be there. This is the condition in the city. But the rural areas will have only two hours power. What I can see here is that Power shortage is going to be one of the main isssue in the near future.

Last year we had a very severe ice storm that left many without power for up to a month! It was horrible! A couple of years before that we had flooding that left people out of there homes for a couple of weeks and some much longer. You guys must not get this often. Here 8 hours is an inconvenience but only serves to remind us how important electricity is in our lives.

you should have put this in my created interest, "not interested at all" just like in the capital, in luzon, we also have frequent power interruptions here in the visayas. sometimes, it will took us the whole day or half of the day without electricity and that is irritating to everyone. business establishments stop operating, those small businesses without generators. even in some government offices, cannot do any transactions because most of the machines, especially computers need electricity.

It's so funny to think that when there are a lot of water in the dam during Ondoy, they throw it away or the don't store it because it might break the dam, but now we need water so bad that we wish it would rain. I think the electric compan(y)/(ies) in Mindanao should have a rotating brownout even for 15-30 mins a week or a schedule to avoid power shortage, like what they do in Luzon. here in or city, we experience rotating brown outs, but we don't have to wait too long for the electricity to come back. I think what's best to do is to save electricity to avoid black outs or brown outs. Saving electricity would also lower the electric bill =)

It also gives me some doubts on what will happen on May 10. I just really hope that these blackouts are really because of the El Nino, and not some political agenda or something.. I also remember those days in 1992 where the blackouts are scheduled, and it's really fun for us, cause we were still young then, and we could play outside the house until the electricity is back.

They are practicing for the coming election like what FVR did to Mirriam Defensor Santiago in the 1992 election