Well not quite the whole earth, but most of the Province of Sindh!
At 7pm last night the power went off. Not an usually event in this city. Usually, the power cut lasts about an hour, so about 8pm I was expecting it to come back. However, 8pm cam and went, as did 9pm. At 10pm I went to bed with the generator still running. By 3.30am the petrol ran out, and so I switched to UPS.
The alarm went of as normal at 6.15am and still there was no power. So I toddled off to school, to find that the power cut wasn't local but actually effecting the whole Province. This means that between 20 and 30 million people were without mains electricity for over 12 hours!
Thankfully, the power started to return about 9am and now most of the Province is once again flowing with power!
An interesting note... When I looked on the BBC Website a few minutes ago for a report on the incident I drew a blank. Obviously, the BBC were unable to work in the phrase 'nuclear armed Pakistan' into the report, and hence decided to can it...
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