Loadshedding – An Integral Part of My Daily Life
The power cuts are generally on the hour and go out for 60 minutes. Each neighborhood has a different schedule that changes after a few weeks. The schedule always seem to get out of whack when it rains for some reason. For the last week, the loadshedding schedule in Phase IV Defence has been as follows during the day:
6am – 7am Electricity
7am – 8am Electricity
8am – 9am Loadshedding
9am – 10am Electricity
10am – 11am Loadshedding
11am – 12pm Electricity
12pm – 1pm Loadshedding
1pm – 2pm Electricity
2pm – 3pm Loadshedding
3pm – 4pm Electricity
4pm – 5pm Loadshedding
5pm – 6pm Electricity
6pm – 7pm Loadshedding
Then a real treat, from 7pm to 1am (5 whole hours) there is electricity! Between 1am and 6am I’m not sure what the schedule is as I’m usually sleeping. I go to sleep around 9 or 10, so having such a long stretch of electricity so late at night doesn’t do much good for me on weekdays. In a few weeks the schedule will change and we’ll adjust our schedules all over again!
What’s Up with the Electricity?
Yikes, there’s something going on with electricity in Lahore today. I woke up sweating with the power went from 4-5am, then it was only on for an hour and went off again from 6-7:22am. The rest of the day has been like this:
7:22 – 8:00 POWER
8:00-9:00 NO POWER
9:00 – 10:00 POWER
10:00 – 11:00 NO POWER
11:00-12:00 POWER
12:00-1:00 NO POWER
1:00-3:00 POWER (Wow for two whole hours!)
3:00 – 4:00 NO POWER
4:00-5:00 POWER
5:00-6:00 NO POWER
6:00 POWER….
Is it going go on and off every other hour? Has Pakistan just run out of money for energy? There was barely any loadshedding during Ramadan, so this seems like very poor planning.
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