Black-Out in Jakarta!
No, I wasn’t hitting the bottle too hard!
I refer to the gigantic power-cut which dislocated our fair city today, and several other provinces nearby…
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https://www.dw.com/en/indonesias-jakarta-hit-by-major-power-blackout/a-49884728
…which prevented me doing many things I had hoped to do, not least tend to the blog.
It also rendered the traffic situation, usually bad…
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…absolutely hellish, since traffic lights were affected too!
The lights just came back on.
JazPen is discussing. 
rossrightangle 
JazPen 20:06 on August 4, 2019 Permalink |
You and me both, mate!
No fridge, no fan, not even internet access, so I could only find out a sketchy version of the cause from a taxi driver.
We dont appreciate how dependent we are till darkness falls.
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