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18 Hours Sin Luz – Boom!

November 28, 2014April 13, 2015 rdgringa 1 Comment Everything Else

Yes we do have power outages here. Yes we do have transformers blowing up from time to time. Welcome to the DR. It is just part of life here. Accept it. Getting upset does not help so you learn to just try and relax as best as you can. The beginning of this week around […]

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What To Do When Water and Lights Go Out?

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014 rdgringa Leave a comment Just a Story

We usually have electricity most of the time in the Colonial Zone area. It seems that since they started the work on the Renovada Ciudad Colonial (pictures of the project), remodeling the streets of the Zone, that our electricity circuit has problems. Lights go out, power fluctuates, poles fall, sparks fly and whatever else can […]

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A Day In My Life – Today

September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 rdgringa 2 Comments Just a Story

I was thinking as I was sitting in the Colmado sucking up the over head fan blowing semi-cool air on my head (they have electricity back-up). The electricity went out which does not happen often in the Colonial Zone but it happened today. Anyhow, I was thinking I should just write about a day in […]

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Electricity Out Walk-About With Teli and Bertha

July 14, 2013July 14, 2013 rdgringa Leave a comment Just a Story

I was just settling down to do some work on the web site Saturday. I had all the facebook updates done. I had the stats checked and was just organizing what I needed to add and..wallah..out go the lights. 8:30AM no electricity and the day was already getting hot and humid. So I decided to […]

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Pigeon Peepers

December 15, 2012 rdgringa Leave a comment View From My Balcony

A few weeks ago the big trucks came and the electric company put in a new pole and new electric lines. It was all good until I realized that the lines were passing directly in front of my window. It looks like if we get a big gust of wind or a big storm that […]

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Hurricane Isaac Updates

August 24, 2012August 26, 2012 rdgringa Leave a comment Events

Aug. 24, 2012 We all got ready for the Tropical Storm Isaac. Got supplies, candles and batteries. Made sure the water storage stuff was filled and the plastic and tarps were ready. All was ready to go for a big one. Thank goodness the big one did not happen. We were spared again here in […]

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