Everywhere around the world people have heard of Earth Hour. Switching of all your lights for one whole hour once a year. Well if you live in South Africa, you don’t really have a choice in switching off your power as the electricity supplier does it for you… All the time.
As wonderful as that might sound, this is not for some noble reason such as helping to save the planet or to bring awareness about some fantastic cause. It’s because the electricity supplier in South Africa can’t keep up with the demand. And because the maintenance on the power stations are so poor that stuff breaks… All the time.
You might think that this is wonderful, but I can tell you from experience that it is scary, inconvenient and not always very pleasant. Sure, I love the candle light romance idea, but after three evenings of having my power off during the time when I normally come home and make supper, have a shower and finally get to watch a little television. I am just slightly fed up. Having had supper very late the one night, not having supper ready and having to go out and buy supper (when the whole neighborhood is dunked in darkness and every desperate hungry person is streaming to any place with a generator to provide supper for their families), and tonight again… Having to wait till the power goes back on to try and make a quick supper for a hungry husband.
There are always those rumors going around about the power stations not being able to keep up, and that there is the possibility that the power could go out for days, or even weeks. Have you ever thought about what that would be like… I have, I have had to, because it’s a real possibility. People tend to giggle behind their hands for these so called doomsday preppers, but not all of them are preparing for a zombie apocalypse. Even us as a relatively normal houshold have started our little emergency kit. Things like water, candles, canned food.
You see, the problem is not the power going out, it’s what happens when it does go out, and people start getting desperate. No electricity, no atm’s to draw money from, no credit card facilities. No way to buy or make food if you don’t have the money to afford it.
Just let that sink in. No electricity doesn’t just mean no electricity. It means hungry desperate cold people, those people will like any normal human being, fight by any means necessary to satisfy their basic needs to survive, they will damage, break, steal and even kill if it meant staying alive. If your loved ones were hungry, cold or threatened in any way, wouldn’t you?
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