@11:36 AM
And welcome to the great Cairo outage!! Today is the climax
of electric outage where many areas in Cairo and Giza suffer from complete outage
for two hours at least now. I woke up to do to find myself sitting in complete darkness,
no light and no ACs. It is the first time to have electric outage in my area already.
Now I found out that there is general blackout through Cairo
and Giza in areas like Zamalek, Mohendessin, Heliopolis, Downtown Cairo, 10th
Ramadan and October. Some areas in Alexandria are reporting electric outage as
well.
Now the Metro stations are suffering from that outage to the
level that people got stuck in the Metro vehicles and had to open its door
manually and walk in complete darkness to avoid suffocation.
I cannot understand how on earth and heavens that the Metro
does not have emergency power generators!! Needless to say not only the Metro
is suffering but the Egyptian stock market also suffered from outage.
Now from what I understand there is a problem in the 10th
Ramadan power station in East Cairo because it got no fuel.
Tell me about a failure state. Of course people are trying
to find an explanation.
