oh, no! brown out!

Hello dear Cutie! In India power cuts are very normal. They are worst n rural areas. Since the industrial growth and residential expansion turning the natural jungles into concrete jungles in India, suddenly the demand of the power got increased. Though some private companies have entered into the business of power supply by establishing few power plants in the country, still we face power crisis.!! I am staying on a Stud farm, which is away from township. We never gt24 hours power supply. We get maximum power supply of 10 to 12 hours. We are depending on big power generators to meet our power needs. Worst part is we get power supply during day time for one week and subsequent week we get power supply during the night time. Here also power supply is not guaranteed. In summers when weave lot of demand the power then we have power failure for many hours.!! At my place I have got invertors set and a diesel generator set to take care of the power supply. These are not only expensive things procure but the maintenance also requires lot of efforts and money. Nowadays the cost of the diesel is touching the sky and it is very expensive way of getting power from power generators. But then since there is no other alternative left I am depending on these sources for getting the power. Some times when the generator set goes out of order we face lot of difficulty and during that time the things kept in refrigerator get soiled. Though I have back up of big generator and inverter, they also have certain limitations. Thus in conclusion because of sudden demand in the power supply in the whole f the country, the rural areas in India is suffering from a lot of power cuts and in spite of having back ups like invertors and power generators some times we face lot of difficulties. For that matter every one can't have these equipment with them as they are quite expensive to procure and maintenance also require lot of money, Thanks. I was a nice topic of discussion and I enjoyed participating in it!!!

I know that in some parts of the United States they have brown outs. The way I understand it it is more likely during our hot seasons, when a lot of people are using air conditioning and that it happens in more populous cities. I live in a small town, away from either coast. We do not have the dense population that causes these problems. We are also exploring wind energy because we always seem to have a lot of wind. It can turn generators and create power. I hope your food is all okay.

We do have power outages at times. In fact, it was in August this year, that a large part of India was out of power for a day and a half, and this was widely publicized in world media too. It was a major grid failure. We do have power cuts in extreme summers- caused by power demand surge caused by heavy use of Air conditioners, and in extreme winters, when grid voltage at times drops to a very low value. We do face issues with foodstuff, but modern refrigerators have the technology to keep food fresh even in case of long power cuts, and we are able to save a lot.

Hi, We only get power outage here when maintenance work is being undertaken by the power company. Scheduled and announced in advance, I can always plan accordingly. When inclement weather knocks down the power lines, of course, blackouts occur, resumption of electric power depend only on the speed of the crew to repair the broken lines, two hours at most. In addition, our town hosts a 250MW coal fired power plant and we are on the last list to be shut off in case power demand cannot meet the load in the grid. You see, we can't afford to lose power for longer periods, large transnational companies operate here, an hour of power loss means a lot to them, in the millions, I heard.

So far, we don't experienced power cuts or interruptions for quite long period of time.Usually power interruption in our place happened if there is strong typhoon. I hate it when there is power cut especially at night, so irritating and having a hard time to sleep and so boring.

Fortunately for us, power outages are not common here, but we do experience this whenever there's an accident involving the power lines getting damaged or when there's some maintenance going on. What timing because last night at around 10pm, the power outage started until 5am for the maintenance. The last time we had a power outage this long was last year due to a destroyed transformer by a strong typhoon.

that happens to us sometimes in the summer because of everyone using air conditioners but not so often in the winter unless we get a bad storm, then we may have one. the last power outage we had was when we got home from celebrating Christmas with my mom on Boxing day (the day after Christmas, which is a holiday here in Canada). we came home to no power so we lit candles and brought out flashlights and the four of us played apples to apples. the power was out for about a couple of hours (that we know of anyways). we had a great deal of fun even though we had no power!

Hello. We boil the milk as soon as we buy it, and boil every day, even if it is in fridge.(the most we use that milk is 3 days). It's the way everyone does, and if we do not boil it as soon as we buy it - it spoils. But if we boil - it can be ok for 3 days. You could have tried to boil it, after the power was back - if it was okay after boiling, then it wasn't spoiled. The spoiled milk would have shown while boiling. (and you could make cheese in that case, or give to your dogs). I actually was in the village for last 2 weeks, and we bought fresh milk every morning, from villagers who had cows, not from shop. And if we didn't boil it at once, even the dog refused to drink it next morning, after keeping it in a fridge))) i guess my dog is really something) but still - i never trust a milk, be it from shop or bought from villagers, if that isn't boiled. It keeps the milk from spoiling, and you can be sure that no infections are in it. cheers))

We do, in fact, we just did earlier today around 11am. Good thing it went back around 1pm. We always receive advice from our electric company if ever they are doing maintenance on some days so we would know when to prepare and when not to buy foods or liquids that are easily spoiled. Sometimes if it wasn't adviced, we call our electric company and ask what the problem was. If they say it will take longer for the power to be back, we just cook the meat in our freezer. At least we get to eat it and it won't get spoiled and put to waste. Haven't experienced getting milks spoiled due to the very long power outage.

It is very seldom that we experience power outages in the area where Im living. Well, we have some of course if there's a storm. And if I remember it correctly, the last time we had power outage was way back in June when a low pressure area struck our province but it lasted for no more than 4 hours.

Okay i got the point. thank god the light came. i have experienced this and yes not for long. Nothing got spoilt in the fridge. I am glad the milk did not get spoilt. here we hardly have power cut outs. i am happy for that at least. If there is storm like rain or thundering then the light goes in my area. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

First off I'd like to say that it is interesting to me you referred to this as a brown out. In the states we call it a black out. Normally where I live we do not experience power outages. The only times we do is during a severe storm or sometimes during the summer when too many people are blasting their AC. Once We lost power for a couple days and I had salt water fish. I was so concerned they were going to die because of the temperature drop. They were stressed but they were just fine.

Here in the U.S., it is very uncommon and usually gets fixed quickly. This past summer we had a massive storm that left some people without power for over a week. I have also lived in Afghanistan and there were constant power outages there, even in Kabul. However, many of them were planned (gov't regulated) in order to make sure that the whole city had access. I also had a lot of disputes with my landlord, who would siphen all of the power to his apartment and leave my side of the building without power! We also counted what all was on and how many volts it was using before deciding to turn on something else. In comparison, even though it is always an inconvenience to be without power, it was much easier to deal with in Afghanistan because the houses and systems are built to be able to function without it. In the U.S., we are very dependent on electricity for our everyday activities (such as driving through an intersection!) I agree with the other mylotters, this was a fun discussion!

in my country, brown out is very rampant. we have power shortages here, so we have schedule for brown out. but at least we know ahead of time.

This year we got the worst kind of power cuts. six hours a day . Its was really bad for the people especially in villages. Most of the small scale industries also faced much trouble and loss in business.

We experience these kinds of things in my area all the time, two hours a day. Sometimes we have brown outs from 8 am to 5 pm straight, mostly on Sundays. And couple of months back we have brownouts 8 hours a day. I'm not even exaggerating. It's a good thing you only have power outages once a week. Me? I want to move to a place where there's no brown outs at all. But that was a month ago. Now I'm used to it.

We don't experience a lot of power outages in our place. Probably about twice or thrice a year. And if ever we experience it, its just for about 30 minutes or so.