Hot

Last night (well, actually this morning at 3am), the temperature went up to 34 degrees Celsius. The air conditioning was off; the fan was on. I was in bed and I couldn’t sleep. The fan was blowing hot air over and over again. I couldn’t handle it anymore, so I went over to the living room, turned on the air conditioning and redirected the cool air into my room.

When I woke up at 7am, I learnt some dwellings in my neighbourhood did not have electricity throughout the night. Some were without power for up to 18 hours.

ETSA Utilities, an electricity distributor, is having major problems. They say the extreme heat is ‘killing’ off their resources and electricity is overloading their generators. They were/are forced to stage blackouts this afternoon. Around 95,000 households had their power cut off. Blackouts did not affect my area.

Today’s maximum temperature was 44 degrees Celsius … that’s 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Guess what? The heat wave will go on until next week. Good luck, ETSA.