Electricity Goes Off Across Bahrain

[Khephra]

August 23, 2004, 4:34 AM EDT


MANAMA, Bahrain -- Electricity went out across Bahrain on Monday, leaving people without air conditioning on a day when temperatures were expected to reach 130, snarling rush hour traffic and sending businesses and the U.S. Navy to their generators.

The cause of the outage was not immediately clear. But this hot, humid Gulf country, home to some 600,000 people, often experiences power supply problems in the summer.

The power went out just before 9 a.m. in the capital, hub of the main population center.

Police were deployed to major intersections to fill in for traffic lights, but cars still sat bumper-to-bumper throughout the city. Firefighters were dispatched to rescue people stuck in the elevators of high-rise buildings. Temperatures were fairly mild in the morning, but expected to soar by midday to around 130 when wind and humidity is factored in.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-bahrain-power-outage,0,7183064.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[slackmaster]

1. My brother and his family got out of Manama just a month abo

They're now in cool, refreshing Colorado.

Where's the animated icon for "Whew!"?

[JerseygirlCT]

4. My family lived there about 20 years ago.

Mom and siblings came home for the summers... Dad had to stay, but basically made sure he went from air conditioned home to air conditioned car to air conditioned office. It was brutal, even so. He always lost a ton of weight over the summer!

Those poor people! It's not that nice dry heat, either. It's wet and incredibly hot!

[slackmaster]

6. My brother is in the Navy

And ships aren't air-conditioned. At least not the smaller ships. Larger ones may have some air-conditioned areas, but generally it's not installed on combat vehicles or vessels because of added weight and the danger of pressurized systems getting hit.

[JerseygirlCT]

15. Yikes. Like being cooked in a can... nt

[Postman]

17. Total BS

I was in the navy and there is air-conditioning on every ship.

The electronic systems alone need the A/C.

[slackmaster]

18. My brother was on an MHC

Mine Hunter, Coastal. He assured me there were no air-conditioned spaces to accommodate humans.

I don't doubt that there are climate-controlled spaces on larger ships.

[Postman]

19. Okay. Don't know about those coastal mine hunters

I served on a carrier, destroyer and amphib.

[Career Prole]

21. I was on Midway-class carriers over thirty years ago

and they had A/C everywhere except the flightdeck. ;)

[Green Lantern]

23. I was stationed in Bahrain

during the Iran-Iraq war. It was quite pleasant there in the heat, if, that is, you didn't mind stewing in your own clothes.

Was a nice city tho and the Bahrainis were very nice folks.

[DrWeird]

2. less electricity in Bahrain then there was before the war.

I guess you won't hear that soundbite on fox.

[Beefeater]

3. What war?

When was Bahrain involved in a war? Does this prove a point? I hope you can read a ballot without getting confused.

[DrWeird]

5. There's a war in Iraq, in case you hadn't heard.

And it's connected with this story in Bahrain.

There's the common rightwing bullshit propaganda story "more electricity in Iraq than there was before the war."

But I'm sure you already knew that and were just playing stupid.

[IMayBeWrongBut]

7. Bahrain is a country, not a city in Iraq...

Bahrain is a island country in the persian gulf just of the coast of Saudi Arabia. It's connected by a bridge.

[DrWeird]

8. No shit, Sherlock.

According to the story per CNN, it was consumption by US forces that lead to the blackout.

Apparently electrocuting people at Abu Ghraib takes a lot of juice.

[IMayBeWrongBut]

10. I hadn't seen the CNN story sorry.

I was just trying to be helpfull here. I thought you were mistaken about the situation. The linked story does mention the Navy base but that has been there for years. I hadn't heard any talk of them causing the outage. If they did that sucks.

[Beefeater]

9. My bad, I guess your right.

I'm stupid. I didn't know that Bahrain was a city in Iraq. Next time I'll look it up first. Just tell me how to vote. Man, I feel so dumb.

[DrWeird]

11. Well, you're half right.

I don't know where you're getting this "Bahrain is a city in Iraq" stuff.

I certainly never implied it. Perhaps you should brush up on your reading comprehension? It might help you with The Pet Goat.

[truth2power]

12. He's new. give him a break!

:P

[DrWeird]

13. Well, he's been here three months.

And he's got three whole posts to show for it.

[truth2power]

16. Now Dr. W, some of us are more talkative than others....

I registered shortly after 9/11, (was here awhile before that) and it took me till early this year to get 1000 posts.

Some of us are just shy...:P

[Beetwasher]

14. Now Now, No Need To Flaunt Your Stupidity

Just be a good little bushbot and go back to torturing small defenseless animals and ratting out your neighbors...

[Pachamama]

20. OK, you want help voting - Here is some help:

Ask yourself these questions:

1) Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?

2) Do you REALLY feel safer today than since 9/11/01? (You think our borders are really safe?)

3) Does it bother you that companies get tax cuts and incentives for outsourcing jobs to other countries which results in fewer jobs here and they avoid paying taxes?

4) Does it concern you that over 42 million Americans have no health insurance and that number is growing?

5) Do the job losses/layoffs and outsourcing of jobs to other countries have left our jobs numbers at dismal levels that continue to not meet the Bush Administrations so-called predictions?

6) Does it concern you that 18% of all children are below the poverty line in America? A number that continues to grow increasingly over the last 3 years since Bush took office?

7) Are you concerned that a woman's right to choice may be in jeopardy if Bush is President for another 4 years and appoints anti-choice Justices in the image of Scalia and Thomas?

8) Does the term "enemy combatant" and your civil liberties mean anything to you?

9) Do you remember what it was like to live in the US with other Nations actually respecting us?


I'll let you ponder those questions and you can then decide for yourself how you should vote....the choices are pretty obvious....and if you answer Bush, then you probably would be more at home at http://www.freerepublic.com

:kick:

[Rockholm]

22. Boo Friggin' Hoo. What about our SOLDIERS????

They are in the same friggin' heat. Hey Bush, what was the high temperature in Bagdhad today, you SOB scum?