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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > When I returned to a stormy Saligao around 9.30pmish, the village was in > the dark. It was an evening of lightning and thunder. What fun riding back > from Margao on a two-wheeler :-) > Lights didn't come back till 1 am. Once in a way, a power failure of this > kind enables catching up on sleep. Sometime in the night, the power came > back... I found it on by 5.30 am, but only two phases. > Phones (landlines) have been out for much of the day. Since BNSL charges > us at "urban" rates, you would expect urban services too. But no. The > exchange is left unmanned, and lightning strikes are not unheard of. (As > for myself, I disconnect all phones, computers and TVs once any lightning > shows up.) > Complain, otherwise nobody's gonna take any action! Share your > experiences. Saligao has a years-old consumer forum, but the activists > there feel few take an interest in what they're doing. Maybe they could > share their updates via Saligaonet on Facebook and Googlegroups. FN > > -- > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha > _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at > https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > -- > -- > Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe email [email protected] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Saligao-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
