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 )
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Friday, 14 May 2010

Asleep at the wheel

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That's what we assume has happened anytime we get more than 3 or 4 hours of electricity. The dude at the NEPA control station has fallen asleep and forgotten to cut us off.

Well today it has happened big time.

For the first time ever on this blog I'm writing on a laptop that is chugging along on NEPA's generous allocation of electricity.

11pm to 6am - that's 7 hours of electricity. More than we've had in an entire week.

Mrs Okada is enjoying a rare thoroughly air conditioned snooze.

The neighbourhood is quiet enough to hear the frogs, crickets, and a few birds starting on dawn chorus. [the constant drumming of generators from closely packed houses is one of several unpleasant side effects from the lack of electricity]

Maybe they were saving it up for the arrival of the President.

Or maybe someone will soon wake up in the control room.
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