Power cut to customers from South Sound to Frank Sound
(CNS): CUC customers in the areas of Sound Sound, Bodden Town and Frank Sound are without power this morning. According to a CUC notice on the Grand Cayman power company’s website, customers “may be experiencing an outage”, but CNS can confirm that many have had their power supply cut. Customers in the South Sound area report that they lost power around 8:30am and were unable to reach the firm by phone. According to the website, CUC crews are investigating the matter and working to restore power.
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The price we pay CUC per month this bullshit has got to STOP! It time we start to buy our own generators subsidised by our family connected to CUC government.
Easy solution lessen demand on our infrastructure by sustainable development and managing our population which would also be good for our environment and crime situation? Yes Cayman continuing down this very foolish road our politicians and their foreign agenda activist keep selling us is a recipe for future problems and disasterous outcomes. More crime more traffic and more blackouts and other third world scenarios.
Compared to other Caribbean islands, (excluding recent damage by hurricanes) we are really lucky. Apart from bill sizes that is. Outages don’t last long and they are pretty infrequent. You got to expect lightening strikes in wet season, which will always damage stuff, and there would be less outages if drivers stayed on the roads rather than hitting the electric poles. Even before the storms, places like PR/Haiti/ Jamaica and so on suffered regular outages, due to corruption and poor/ancient infrastructure. Despite the perpetual grumblers writing on here, we are doing quite well.
Not once has CUC has ever been cited for loss of income fpr businesses who suffer from these outages had it been the other way around however they would be on you like white on rice to get their $$$ !!
The first 35 years of my life I lived in Europe. Don’t remember any outage ever.
Moved to central america, rain means power gone.
Then came here. It is embarrassing, compared to the cost and quality of almost everything here. It looks civilized, but this place is a real joke.
Leaving soon . . . . . .
We are paying for service but getting regular blackouts. The more blackouts the higher the cost for service. Where are the regulators??
Don’t let the doir hit you on the a$$ on your way out! Happy riddance!
Back to school.
no worries
So go back to Europe and live with the ISIS savages. Toodles ?
Whilst I don’t defend ISIS in any way, sometimes it is more savage here with backstabbing Caymankind remarks born out of pure ignorance and hatred.
So many thumbs down!! Must have hit a nerve with the anti-Cayman European readers!
You might not like Cayman, but lets face it, it’s way better than the shitholes you all came from!
At least europeans have proper healthcare and social wellfare.
Sorry we disrupted your world tour. Did you make good money during your “visit”?
More than you will ever know.
I too lived in Europe for a number of years. They had both power outages and brown outs. Stop deluding yourself.
Does anyone really care what happens in South sound? SMB is where its at… 🙂
Oh piss off Dart!
If the power wasn’t up 99.999% of the time people wouldn’t moan so much when it does go out. I haven’t had an outage where I live in over a year. A service can be reliable without being perfect. If it wasn’t reliable, we wouldn’t have the economy and services we do, because no one would have any confidence in the power supply. Obviously people do, and they just like to moan when they’re temporarily inconvenienced. Bring on the moaning.
I don’t know why CUC even bother with a phone, no one ever answers.
Until CNS brings back the LOL button I will now just leave my own as a comment.
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At Secret Garden, Fairbanks Road, GT, we lost water at the same time, and got them back at the same time. That IS a first in over 40 years on the island.
I was in the shower in Spotts and also lost water.
Kind of weird though to lose water because of a power outage, what would cause that to hapoen?
Because you use electric pumps instead of towers?
Nothing like a “knowall”. In the past we have had power cuts for hours but it did not affect the city water supply.
An issue at the pumping stations perhaps? I assume they require electricity to function.
Those poor guys on the hamster wheel pumping the water need light to work too you know.
Time to buy solar and cut CUC from disrupting my life. If you knew you were going to cut how about a 24 hour heads up.
Time for Cayman to support OTEC, ocean thermal energy conversion. This runs 24/7/365 and has zero emissions.
Problem is, too many are hooked on the CUC monopoly and are resistant to a revolutionary change in the way out utility does business.
Someone needs to pull their finger out and approve this proposal before Cayman loses this opportunity to another island.
Nothing to stop you. Off you go. Don’t forget to include sufficient batteries (for night time) and a standby generator (for cloudy days and maintenance times). Then disconnect your CUC wire completely.
This is why I love Cayman, you can go completly off the grid without government creating some stupid regulation or charging you for being off the grid like in some countries.
What in the article suggests they deliberately cut power? Or do you think their crystal ball should have told them of the outage in advance so they could notify you? Want to be mad, be mad at the fact that they don’t have redundancy in the system to prevent usages or that they are lousy at communicating what’s happening, but prior notice of unscheduled outages is a bit much to expect.
Red Bay out as well
Back up for me. 46 minute outage. From 08:41 – 09:27.
Based on the time on my flashing oven clock this evening it was out for about 3 hours in Spotts.