Let There Be Light!

Folks, the 46 days electric outage came to an end this week. On Tuesday our electric meter was installed and programmed and that night we had LIGHT. Not candle light, but real electricity light. There was stirfry, beers and music to celebrate. Hugo and I almost couldn't believe it. We had partly gotten use to living with out light while simultaneously dreading going home to a dark house every night. We both questioned how we survived for so long. And, we couldn't answer that question.

Getting light back into the house was not easy. The electric company didn't cooperate very much and my poor mother in law was making trips twice a day, daily, to get someone to install our meter. At first they claimed they couldn't install a meter for us because there was an electrification project finishing in our neighborhood (which we weren't a part of) and another entity was in charge of electricity in our neighborhood. Talk to them. Well, once we established we weren't part of the project and were not going to be part of the project, they accepted our petition for an electric meter. Once the technicians finally got out to the house to put in the meter, they installed it wrong and Maritza had to go back to the meter (on the same day when she had already spent more than 3 hours with the techinicians) so they could program it right once and for all.

We have a pre-pay meter. This means we put so much money on a card, swip our card in our meter and it charges for that certain amount. We have to recharge the card, then the meter when it looks like our electric credit is low. With this new re-charge system and our 45 lightless days we will be very careful about our electricity consumption.

Let There Be Light!