Welcome to Our Live Blog of power supply in this Niger delta

Sitting in our little 2 bedroom flat, listening to the thrum of the generator, Mr and Mrs Okada decided to give a live account of power improvements (and declines) in our neighbourhood.

We have been inspired by the sight of 3 successive Presidents promising us more electricity. This time we intend to help by providing live data from the field. We'll innovate, gyrate, and create. Soon we hope (with your assistance) will be a luck-o meter where we can measure how much things have really improved.

Its a survey of one, but we hope you'll share your stories, that NEPA will bring light and that laughter will at least abound.

If you really like the look of this little diary you may want to try reading from the bottom to the top.

(we still haven't figured out how to get blogger to keep our first entries at the top of the page and let you read through from the beginning ).

Thursday 17 June 2010

We don relax (too much)

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So yesterday for the first time in ages.....

We ran out of water in the big ol' tank beside the house.

Fuel ran out for the generator.

Generator went off last night (the squatter relaxed on his duty of checking the oil).

Why, you ask ?

We got comfortable with the routine of a few more hours of NEPA each day and then they changed their pattern on Monday to keep us on our toes (we didn't adjust fast enough).

Presently we seem to be on new regime of about 3 hours per day - from 3am to 6am, if at all.

Bad timing guys.

Mrs Okada is going to be grumpy when she gets to your office.
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