... brownout
15 Jul 10





The typhoon caused a major brownout in Metro Manila. As always when feeling bored I turned to my camera. Lucky I fully charged my batteries before because a fire (!) earlier that day in my room killed all the chargers. I bought this amazing tie-dye lil’ blue onepiece and since it was too early to sleep decided to make a selfportrait.
We’ve been without electricity for about 20 hrs, some neighborhoods are still cut off. My aunt said that at the shopping malls they had their own generators so we could go there and charge all our phones, laptops and so. Apparently we were not the only one thinking so. There was even a lady who had a Mac-pro charger I could borrow since mine got killed during the fire. Nice place, good food, free wifi and plenty of power sockets!
the same thing happened here in holland as well. because of the terrible storms wednesday a few cities found themselves without electricity! the dutch meteorological institute are even saying it might have been a tornado!
so doesn’t seem like you’re missing anything here back home!
check out these links:
http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2581989.ece/Ravage_door_noodweer_in_oosten_van_het_land