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Blackout cripples 8 towns, 1 city in Negros.

by Babel-Fish | September 3, 2009 at 06:29 pm

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DUMAGUETE – Strong winds toppled a main power transmission tower in Negros Oriental causing a 17-hour power interruption in Dumaguete City and eight municipalities on Thursday.

The transmission line is located in Barangay Basiao in San Jose town and owned by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

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Power was restored around 9 p.m. Thursday but after 15 minutes, the power went out again. Electricity became available again by 9:30 p.m.

Sonia Ruiz, transmission line engineer of the NGCP sub-station in Tandayag, Amlan, Negros Oriental, said the 69 KV structure in Basiao was already unstable before it finally gave in to strong winds.

She said they had discovered that the guy wires holding the two-pole structure had been snipped off by unknown persons earlier.

Wire thiefs and bad weather made my day a very bad one yesterday, no fresh water, no power and sad Babel-Fish had no means of writing a story or publishing the bad news. lol

It actually was not that bad candle light and barbacue and some damn nice wine to the pain and agony out of the withdrawal syptoms of my internet addiction. However when the water did come on we had to revert to using well water as my dog had accidently broke the main water pipe connection.

I now know I need to buy a generator...

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