Since I started working from home, all sorts of chaos has unfolded at home. Today, I experienced the most unexpected of the lot as there was a power cut in my area.
Epileptic power supply is something I grew accustomed to in Nigeria. In the best case scenario, we'd typically get around 20 hours of electricity per day and on the other end, you could go weeks without having electricity in your house for no apparent reason.
Ever since we moved to the UK, we've had constant electricity. However, for the first time in nearly one year, there was a power cut in my area.
At the time of writing, there hasn't been power at my place for around 16 minutes and there's no sign of that changing. There are alarms blaring at the residents' of my neighbours but that's just about it.
In terms of protocol, I honestly don't know what to do or who to call. In Nigeria, it was a normal occurrence, so you actually don't have to do anything. You just accept your fate.
In the UK, this is not normal and I reckon there's a protocol that probably involves information gathering. I don't know what to do but luckily for me, I don't have to because my landlord has been around for a while and he certainly will know what to do.
Its just frustrating how all these things are happening now that I've just started working from home. This is a one in a million occurrence anyway and I doubt it'll ever happen again, but I'd hate it to be on my records that I was off work due to unexpected reasons.
In any case, yeah, power cut in the UK and at the time of publishing, it's been 20 minutes since and no remedy in sight. I reckon it'll take a while before it's sorted out and we get word about it.