It is with howling difficulties that all Mindanaoans suffer as we face a protracted and an indefinite period without prediction for our daily power supply. Needless to say it affects my ability to conduct my daily drops at Blogs and to do what is needed at this Blog.
This frustration extends with my daily chores at home and while at work. The losses accrued in the private sector must be running into the billions of Pesos.
The El Niño phenomena is not peculiar. It is not something that our Department of Energy awoke yesterday to realize what havoc it does to the climate. The water shortage for hydro-electricity and the resultant drastic shortage of Energy could have been alleviated with proper fore planning so that they don’t fry their eggs and everyone else’s eggs in the same basket.
They cannot deny that they know nothing about how to diversify our Energy sources. There are other alternatives and not rely on a sole source to generate Energy.
This mental ineptitude to pre-plan amongst our leaders is equally paralleled by their amazing personal resourcefulness when Emergency Funds is decreed as a stop-gap solution for the Energy crisis. You can bet your last dollar that their management of the Emergency Funds will be as transparent as Electricity. To put it real short, the Funds will be ZAPPED !
While all is being debated back and forth, nothing seems to illuminate these numbskulls to serve the nation before self.
With the limited hours available to use my Computer, I am restricted from replying to most Comments at my Blogs. Though my spirit is willing but the !*#!*^ power is weak!
Please be as patient as Mindanaoans while our new millionaires who benefit from this Energy Crisis will hire witch doctors from Africa to invoke for bounteous rain in our region.
B I N G K E E
General Santos Time
Some parts here in northeast America—esp; in NJ, NY &CT had experienced power outages for 2 to 3 days —like a blackout. It was due to hurricane-like winds that happens during heavy downpour.
I just wrote about it in my recent post.
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Sad to know your discomfort with such rotating and constant blackout there in Mindanao. I can only sympathize and emphatize.
I know how it is to experience power failure. In Bacolod City where I live, a prior announcement of a 4 hour power interruption due to an occasional preventive maintenance by the electric cooperative, usually done on a Sunday, would send people to the shopping malls here. An unannounced brown-out/power interruption lasting 30 minutes that sometimes happen would result to angry calls to the electric cooperative which sources its power from a geothermal plant here in Negros island.
You don’t have to be a management expert to know that the power crisis in Mindanao is the result of mismanagement and incompetence of our government officials, led by the power-hungry and liar Gloria and her equally incompetent bureaucrats at the Dept. of Energy.
In this turbulent times of political crisis of confidence and uncertainty besetting our beloved country of rich natural resources, sun, geothermal power, wind, and waterfalls, which remain untapped to this day, my only prayer is: “Lord, have mercy on us”
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