The power outages seem to be picking up in frequency again. We’ve lost power twice today, twice yesterday, and once over the weekend. This is probably the worst I’ve seen it here. It was almost this bad when I first got here, you could expect to lose power about 4 times a week. After 3 months went by, things really improved and we rarely lost power for the next 5 months or so. These last two months have been getting progressively worse. I understand that Yemen has a power generating shortage and that causes rolling blackouts, but maybe there’s something else going on causing the really terrible gaps in service recently…
UPDATE: It turns out that there is a problem with the cable connecting our house to the rest of the power system. Now that we know what the problem is, I’m hoping that they’ll fix it soon. The power is going off in the rest of the city, but it comes back on for them…