Blackout season
May 3, 2007
Imagine this: you arrive home from a rough day of drinking beer by the pool, only to discover that due to yet another power outage, you will be hiking the 8 flights of stairs to your apartment. Not for the first time, you wonder what made you decide to live in a building with no backup generator.
We’ve had ‘power fluctuations’ courtesy of SNEL (the municipal power company) nearly every day for the past two or three months and it’s been getting old. REGIDESO (the municipal water company) has not been much better.
So last week’s cartoon in the paper (translation: It’s his fault! No, it’s his!) got a bitter laugh from all who had enough light to read by.
Which brings me to my favourite Congo joke:
What did Congolese do for light before kerosene lamps?
Electricity!
