A weekend without electricity

Last weekend was one of the boring weekends for me in 2012. As I went home from work on Friday, on my way to the house I passed some PNG Power Linesmen checking out a power pole along my street. Having arrived at the house, I met up with my Unit mates informing me of the blackout which was currently on and the Linesmen I came across were trying to restore the power. After about 30mins, the power came on and I went down to my Unit. At about 8 O’clock that night, the power went out again. I decided to have an early night coz of this; at about 10:30pm the power returned as I noticed the fan coming on and dozed back off to sleep. I woke up next morning only to find out that the power was off again, it most probably went out at around midnight as there was heavy rain and strong winds that night. I found out a little later that the strong winds blew down a tree on my street damaging the power lines. The PNG Power linesmen returned to fix this problem and took them all of the afternoon, and power was restored around 8:30pm that night. It only lasted this time for about 20mins before going out again simultaneously as we heard a loud bang down the street. This we found out to be a blown transformer on one of the power poles on my street. I realized this would be another big problem to fix. I went off to bed and woke up the next day Sunday 5th of February, 2012 to no power. During the day, I was not able to charge my cell phone hence was out of communication with the outside world, The radio or TV couldn’t be switched on also so I resorted to reading my novel I bought recently on a trip down under. Once in a while having a buai (bettlenut) break and cursing the Power Authority. Finally around 7pm, the PNG Power linesmen returned to fix the blown transformer. I realized today whilst on the way to work that a new transformer was installed to replace the old blown out one. Power was eventually restored at 10:30pm that night. From then to now it is still on and I’m hoping it remains that way forever, and no repeats of this kind ever again.