Delhi: Power began to flicker on late Monday morning, hours after a major power outage struck simultaneously across dozens of cities in the northern India. By 11 p.m. in multiple states, power has not been restored to about 67 crore people, a spokeswoman for power department said. It was unclear what caused the outage, although state and central govt. officials agreed that it was not terrorism.
Delhi’s CM Shiela Dikshit, whose city was almost completely darkened by the blackout, urged Delhi walas to seek alternatives to talking to each other, such as sleeping, eating or listening to battery-powered CD players. Unfortunately, the CM was unable to deliver this message through the usual means of television and radio, so she was forced to walk the streets of the city with a bullhorn, giving advice and comfort to Delhi’s petrified residents. “This is exhausting and terrifying, and I can’t even be sure if I’m doing any good,” Dikshit said as he patrolled the city. “Still, I’m going to keep at it. The alternative is to go home to my husband.”
A spokesman for the prime minister’s office said the cause of the outage was due to a ” Bhangra Party” at the residence of the home minister PC Chidambaram, who is a Bhangra fanatic. Engineers point the finger at the tangle of bare electrical wires inside and outside the 670,000-watt display, theorizing a roadie spilled a beer onto the electrical tap which the display drew its power. Who spilled the beer that caused this blackout? CBI officials are investigating this spillage but the offender is at large.
The outage stopped trains, elevators and the normal flow of traffic and life. Its 6 pam. and the power has not being restored in parts of the affected area.
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This is a serious issue. The CBI needs to track down the culprit behind getting Chidambaram into bhangra, in the first place. My suspicion is on Mayavati though, but I will wait for the investigation results.
As the owner of Jordan River Moving & Storage I would like to take moment to repsnod to the compliant filed by this customer. I would first like to say that this customer is grossly misrepresenting the facts of this move.I met the customer personally when I did his visual estimate in Seattle. He is 30 years old, but still has his mother managing his life for him. Since he was a referral from Isaacs Moving I gave him a do not exceed quote based on his previous move. His mother was the one who was coordinating the pick up with us. She was very rude to me, our movers and to the customer service. We allowed her to write what ever she liked on the contract. Her attitude did a 180 turn when she was told that upon weighing the shipment, it weighed less than the 5200 lbs. They were refunded accordingly.We delivered the items within the promised time frame, nothing was damaged or missing. The driver did indeed hire a temp worker to help unload the shipment in Baltimore. I will repeat NOTHING WAS MISSING OR DAMAGED, after the delivery was completed. The customer signed all his moving documents, stating that he had received all of his items.The day after the delivery the customer called to tell us that he was missing items. At that time he told us that the temp worker had come back that day stating that he had lost his cell phone in the customer’s house during the move the previous day. He allowed the man to look though is house unsupervised, while the customer went back to his computer. Who the hell does something like that? When he called looking to get the man’s name our customer service rep told him she would look into it and get back to him. I would also like to note that the neighbor hood that this customer moved into a very dangerous, crime- ridden neighborhood. Furthermore this customer can not be sure that someone else did not see the delivery and decide to come back the following day and act like he was an employee of ours.The following day, he called back stating that his car was now missing. When the customer service rep asked if he had contacted the police, he response was no, he was waiting for us to get information about the temp worker. She asked him, “Why wouldn’t you call the police, when your car is missing.” He is a very strange man, I know because I have met him.So let me ask you, why would we be responsible after the move is complete? During all phases of the move nothing was missing or damaged. Every thing was done professionally and the delivery was completed on time, for less money then he had expected to pay.For him to say that he received poor service from Jordan River Moving & Storage is not only rude, it is simply untrue. I can understand though, it is not easy for any person to admit that he was foolish and made a poor choice.I urge any potential customer reading this complaint to look at all of the wonderful reviews there are about our company. We would also be more than happy to provide anyone with referrals from other customers who were very happy with the service the received from or company. We would also like to make it clear that the “facts” this customer provided about our company are completely false and untrue.Sharon Joseph OwnerSharon Joseph Owner