Island Wide Power Outage

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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:05

By caribarena news

Following the island wide power outage that occurred today (17th August, 2011), the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) sent out a press release detailing what went wrong.

At approximately 11:18 am, the electricity networked encountered a system collapse, causing an island-wide outage. APUA Engineers are still trouble shooting to diagnose the exact cause of the system failure.

However, APUA has since restored 50% of the services across the island and expect to have services fully restored by this evening.

APUA thanks the public for their patience during this period and would like to give full assurance that all resources have been deployed to rectify this issue.

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Sick of APUA

Proud Antiguan » 2011-08-20 23:03

Sick of APUA messing up things! Why as Antiguans do we put up with this! The management clearly don't know how to run a business properly!

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here we go again

lights out » 2011-08-18 09:32

Hold on! A light just went off in my head!!! We did say AUPA, didnt we? God darn it!

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lights out

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Good Job Bob

Skyewill » 2011-08-18 07:14

Funny GJB, 2 Antiguan Politicians was on their way to Freetown, The got pass the sugar Factory, Pass Sir Viv stadium, round the round-about. and saw a street sign that said, ' Freetown Left". They looked at each other in dismay and turn around and went back home. When asked why the did not keep going until they reached Freetown, the explained that Freetown left.

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lighten up (pun intended) jill

Good Job Bob » 2011-08-18 00:47

We could always respond with humor:

What did Antiguans use for light before candles?

LIGHT BULBS !!!!!!!

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@ jill

Skyewill » 2011-08-18 00:17

yes we are dear. I don't know why they gave you thumbs down. you sound just about right. Still in the stoneage

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The 21st century

jill » 2011-08-17 22:28

Are we still living in the 1960's when electricity and water were turned off every day?

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Chinese Test

John..B » 2011-08-17 19:53

APUA has been trying out the chines gen sets over the past 2 week.The outages are caused by trip off ,which can bring down the power grid!!

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DONT RUSH

dave » 2011-08-17 18:59

PLEASE DONT RUSH REMEMBER WHAT HAPPEN IN LIBERTA,

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Can't Comment?

Buzzbomb » 2011-08-17 18:30

I can't comment because my power is out.
Kidding aside, we should all respect the folks in the field who work hard to keep us with current, especially during unexpected blackouts.
Don't know for sure, but suspect there might be undervalued and underfunded preventative maintenance programs involved. Who knows?
Hope they get it together soon before my generator runs out of gas.

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sad

worker » 2011-08-17 16:49

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