Our power at office AKA my house has just gone out, so I’m rushing to get this out. These power cuts are not isolated incidents. As discussed, the decrepitude of Sri Lanka’s energy policy leaves us dependent on the rain for basic economic functionality, with no particularly intelligent backup. So everybody has power cuts these days. The question is what to do. At YAMU we’ve assembled a few tips, specifically 10 Things To Do During Power Cuts.
You can see the video above, and I’d recommend clicking thru for the writeup. We’ve also posted a power cut schedule there, though they don’t seem to mention Dehiwela or the burbs, and we’re having cuts anyways. So I guess that’s me signing off and taking YAMU’s own advice. Beep beep beep beeeeeeeep.
I love powercuts at night. For some reason it feels good. However you have to have a fairly big house and a garden to enjor powercuts.
I think I know what you mean. The silence and darkness can be very soothing.
Balconies in olden days were called “sandaluthala’, tranlates as ‘moonlit level’, where people lounged in the evenings probably on woven mats or a ‘kavichchiya’. We dont get much time to stargaze or moongaze these days. May be we could add this as the 11th item to Yamu’s list of things to do during a powercut.