The power was off today right at 12 hours. The power situation just isn't getting any better. Our power company is saying that the load shedding should be better by March of 2009 or towards the end of 2010. I'm praying towards March personally.
Today I called two different locations to find out what the problem was and I got two different answers. First, I called the Chongwe office and they said we were experiencing load shedding because the chiefteness' brother had passed away. The funeral is tomorrow so they cut our power today so that they would have it during the funeral through tomorrow night. They thought it should be on by 2:00 though. Then I called the Lusaka office located in the capitol city. They said it was also load shedding but because they were doing maintanence work at one of the stations. Supposedly, it was all over Zambia that the power was a problem. After contacting several friends over Zambia I found out that it had gone out some but had not been off all day like here. The power finally came on at 4:45pm. Just thought you may be interested in hearing a little bit of the frustration we face sometimes. If you think about it please pray that Zesco would be able to fix the problems once and for all.
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