Approximately 6:45 PM in Hawaii, Oahu had lost its power according to the spokesman of Hawaiian Electric Co. However, it wasn't till two hours later when the entire islands of Oahu has lost its power due to outage in the generators also. In reference to many of the Informational Websites, power outage had left outage in island's population of 900,000 people and thousands of tourists including vacationing President-elect Barack Obama.
By 6 o'clock in the morning,about 113,000 customer's power has been retored, mostly on the west side of the island. However, it's not till later the remaining of the island's population will gain back their power.
Gov. Linda Lingle has said that the utility will be taking one of the generator to Obama, elected-president's rented beach house, but was informed that he has had already 3 generators in position.
The outage seem to be caused by the thunderstorm little after sun has set, but thunderstorm soon calmed, leaving the island under dark.
As for me, I was in Ala Moana Shopping Center working on my part-time job. Around 7 O'clock we had our power out, leaving most of our customers under ruckus. By 7:45, we had most of our customers leave after their manual check outs and our managements had finally decided to close down the place. By 8 o'clock the employees were informed that we are able to leave after cleaning up some of the mess. Although it was a unconvinient experience, it's one of the 'happenings' that it seems to me as I can share with my co-workers.
Currently, I'm at post by my cell phone since the restaurant has still not gained back its power and I was informed that it's not till later on that we will be opening up again.
By 6 o'clock in the morning,about 113,000 customer's power has been retored, mostly on the west side of the island. However, it's not till later the remaining of the island's population will gain back their power.
Gov. Linda Lingle has said that the utility will be taking one of the generator to Obama, elected-president's rented beach house, but was informed that he has had already 3 generators in position.
The outage seem to be caused by the thunderstorm little after sun has set, but thunderstorm soon calmed, leaving the island under dark.
As for me, I was in Ala Moana Shopping Center working on my part-time job. Around 7 O'clock we had our power out, leaving most of our customers under ruckus. By 7:45, we had most of our customers leave after their manual check outs and our managements had finally decided to close down the place. By 8 o'clock the employees were informed that we are able to leave after cleaning up some of the mess. Although it was a unconvinient experience, it's one of the 'happenings' that it seems to me as I can share with my co-workers.
Currently, I'm at post by my cell phone since the restaurant has still not gained back its power and I was informed that it's not till later on that we will be opening up again.
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ShaiZer 2008/12/27 19:14 Modify/Delete Reply Address
By 8:30 am, Hawaiian Electric has restored over half of Oahu. approximately at 179,000 of their 295,000 customers.
We seem to pay one of the most highest pays in electricity bills yet seems as if we also have most unreliable electrical grid in the nation. It is understandable that we are not connected to rest of the nation-wide grid, meaning no back-up system. However, a grid more resilient to minor problems would be very nice..
Jaecie 2008/12/28 00:22 Modify/Delete Reply Address
Yea I lost power around 7:30ish and I was watching a Japanese Drama on the computer and all of a sudden my screen went dark. Good thing I was using a laptop and the whole episode was loaded already lol. It was pitch black and it was so funny because 30min after everything went dark some people started to play a bunch of fireworks ^^. Since there was nothing much to do I ended up playing my DS for a bit and then went to bed kinda early. I tried to read a book but holding a flashlight while reading got annoying. I saw a lot of lightning but I did not hear thunder.
I was wondering if any malls and such went out because I know Pearlridge has a backup generator and so I was assuming that Ala Moana had one too. However, it seems as if even those were not working and everything really did completely black out. There was a Zippy's that still had power tho and my friend said that it was really busy over there. Well it is good that you were able to make it home safely. And lol you were updating this from your phone I probably would have done the same thing cept I don't know if I can use my phone to update xanga. If I had the iphone I could but I only have the itouch and that requires actual internet.
ShaiZer 2008/12/28 11:39 Modify/Delete Address
actually i didn use my phone to update a blog. i woke up early in the morning. exactly an hour after the power has come back, i was up online on my computer hoping to keep everyone updated in the time being. well i headed to work this morning and well, the water was still not running at islands, which delayed our openings. So the restaurant later opened up at 4 pm. the company must've lost lots of money.