Blackout

Wednesday night the Dutch aiforce had an exercise near my work. They were flying their appaches in the dark, and low to the ground. With all the gear and high tech stuff stacked in an apache, it would be hard to have accidents, but they managed to do exactly that.

The helicopter flew through some powerlines that were hanging over the river Waal. This caused an enormous blackout in the adjacent areas. There are 50.000 houses without electricity since Wednesday evening, which also means no heating.

The power company is putting up an emergency solution, but expectations are that power will come back on this afternoon. Almost 48 hours of darkness.

Lectric has been without power since Wednesday too, which means it is incredibly hard to work now. All files that I was working on are on a computer at Lectric, and my laptop is mostly used to connect with that.

Yesterday I was able to do some off line work by typing several documents. Today I don't have a clue what to do. Not too bad, since I only had half a day today anyway, but I can imagine that it sucks for my boss :)