Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month

cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here is the thing though. If it was genuinely in emergency that means it was a pretty big area, if it’s just a few houses that are out power the company wouldn’t consider that an emergency situation.

  OP says it’s an emergency, so that means that multiple homes and possibly quite a lot of businesses as well as some manufacturing are probably affected. If the “neighbourhood” is that high priority it almost certainly has multiple cables. There was also no way in hell that the repairs would be carried out by just one person.

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  • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah you can almost see the real story screaming out in despair between the lines. Some soulless drone working for electrical company got called out to fix a power line, and on the way they saw a block party going on. They think: wouldn’t it be awesome to join that party instead of having to work. But no they go to work and it takes forever and when they finally figure it out, it was just one loose cable. On the drive back they keep dreaming about that block party.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’d also gaslight myself into believing I attended the party instead.

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, plus you gotta think about the hospitals. I think they’d have backup generators, but still.

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