Thank you

I parted company with my teddy bear between 1155 & 0230 this morning (Maenam)

Wife: "Why do you have to do 'Mr Fawlty' all the taam?"

Just been advised no power in Maenam till about 22.00.

Just been advised no power in Maenam till about 22.00.

I'm in Ban Thai Maenam we have power

Maenam was very dark and wet, coming through at 7 pm, but going up my Soi, the lights were / are on

It's hard to figure out how the grid works!

Maenam was very dark and wet, coming through at 7 pm, but going up my Soi, the lights were / are on

It's hard to figure out how the grid works!

He Man has the power he uses the power of Grey Skull watch out for skaltor in the dark

Here is an interesting site with information on outages in the US:

http://powerquality....ker/default.asp

They also have information on Canada and NZ and Australia, I believe.

If you roll over you can see the causes of the outages. I wonder if some of these are the same causes as for here.

4.30 to 6.00 this morning Bophut. Calm weather.

Thankfully Maenam didn't go for the hat trick:)

Mine, in Maenam, went out sometime during the night, I got woken up by the UPS box beeping.... I am not sure what time as I could not see the clock! But it was after the very heavy rain .....

I guess we can all be thankful we are not in the eastern USA, 3 million plus people. going to be without power for several days

It's all a conspiracy by the Generator manufacturers.

Thankfully Maenam didn't go for the hat trick:)

\\would not give manam the kiss of death

Half power since 7am.

Half power since 7am.

I have never run to this half power thing on Samui, it's on or off, ..... half power, used to be a regular thing when i lived on KP

.... enough to watch the telly, but not much else..... never did figure that out......

Well - it's not much help to us here in paradise, but we are not the only ones with the problem.

http://news.yahoo.co...-220940392.html

If you do not want to read the article - it starts off with

"In the aftermath of violent storms that knocked out power to millions from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic , sweltering residents and elected officials are demanding to know why it's taking so long to restring power lines and why they're not more resilient in the first place.

The answer, it turns out, is complicated" Does this sound familiar?

And the USA is not exactly a tropical island in developing nation!

Big rain and boom boom .... here in Maenam, right now, looks like it could be an interesting evening..... now where are the candles?

Last time the weather hit big, my Internet was out for four days. Insult to power outage injury.

light just went out on our hotel at chaweng but came back after i heard a generator starting. thanks god . a disaster if our beers got varm in our refrigriator :-) cant see if power went out elsewhere or just our place. cancelled our trip to fisherman village walking street tonight so thatvhas to wait to next friday. cheers :-)

I had three annoying seconds of power outage.

light just went out on our hotel at chaweng but came back after i heard a generator starting. thanks god . a disaster if our beers got varm in our refrigriator :-) cant see if power went out elsewhere or just our place. cancelled our trip to fisherman village walking street tonight so thatvhas to wait to next friday. cheers :-)

VARM beer would be terrible... . that is Danish for warm is it??? or have you been taking spelling lessons from our Mr Big C ?

No power out, here... but still drizzling rain! fingers crossed!

ups. yeah i meant warm which is varm in danish :-) we actually lost power here for a few hours and only had lights turned on at specific places at the hotel,but our beers survived :-) and gotten ekstras from 7 eleven just in case.

still raining though,but atleast its good for the plants hehe. i saw you wished for rain in the gardening thread and look like your wish came through :-)

I had three annoying seconds of power outage.

I had that once in 1997.

Gawd...that was enbarrassing....

power down again here at hotel. must have been out a few hours cause noise from generator kept me awake. maybe some maintenance before the weekends rain sets in? ohh well time to get some breakfast anyway and maybe a bit of sun. :-)

Power off in my area of Maenam, from about 6pm to 8.10 pm.... not sure about the "down town core" of Maenam? , not a good time during dinner hours!

Funny a neighbour on the next Soi just asked me this afternoon how come my power was always on and his goes off... this time his stayed on!

Candle light dinner in much of Maenam this evening...

Went off about 6,20 still off coming home in town ..... but delighted my lights and my Soi are on....

The power has just come back on in Plai Laem. Off since 7.30 ish. This is happening about once a week up here.

Major problems from Kanom station, not full power supply.

So it is candlelit dinners for the forseeable future?

So it is candlelit dinners for the forseeable future?

Yes, it will be, different areas on different days, expect power cuts about every 3 - 4 days until end of August......

So it is candlelit dinners for the forseeable future?

Yes, it will be, different areas on different days, expect power cuts about every 3 - 4 days until end of August......

Thank you for the update.