Have you ever experienced a national blackout in your country? Here is my experience / myLot

Maracaibo, Venezuela

March 20, 2019 4:02pm CST

A week ago, a very strong event occurred in Venezuela, there was a national blackout due to disinvestment and maintenance in the last years of service. Imagine a whole country turned off completely for 5 days. On extremely hard days, we lost all communication with the outside world. On the second day without light, people were already starting to despair, drinking water was lacking and food began to run out. The despair of the people was beginning to be felt and the looting of the shops was quite intense. It was a really strong experience. Have you experienced any catastrophe?

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Hector Rangel

@herre01 (119)

• Venezuela

24 Mar 19

Hi, @ edevis18, it was a terrible event due to an intentional lack of maintenance and I even thought that the system was intentionally turned off thinking that it would be simple to reconnect it, but ignorance played against it and we had those 5 days without electricity, even today after a week there is instability and blackouts on a smaller scale every day.

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Shiva

@Shiva49 (26910)

• Singapore

21 Mar 19

Obviously, it is a failure of the whole system in place. Occasional power outages have happened but not on a national scale. It is unfair to the future generation especially - siva

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