March 18, 2004
The Power went out at the power company.
Yesterday we lost about half the power generated by the power company.
Of course the load remained the same so there was simply not enough power.
To manage this we had the Samoa version of Rolling Blackouts.
Having lived through them in Silicon Valley in 2001, I was familiar with the inconvenience they are. Only here there was no warning here, just cut off. I am happy to report that we at EPC headquarters were subject to the same power cuts as everyone else. (No we don’t have a backup generator)
Yesterday when it went off at just after 11, Mo called me and asked if I could do anything about her power. I said no but I would let her buy me lunch.
I work with computers… the power was out… I was dead in the water… might as well go have lunch. Which is a very Samoa way of seeing things. I think I become more and more native every day.