Power Cut

For the first time in two years I have experienced a power cut for more than two hours in my locality. At around 11.30 A.M, the power went on and off more than five times in our office premises. After a while it was totally blanked out. I and couple other friends were sitting in a pitch dark room. We heard an announcement stating the power outage was due to natural gas interruption and were hoping for things to be back in 20-30 minutes. To our dismay there was no sign of power for the next 45 minutes. Meanwhile we all had our lunch and we were waiting for our machines to detect either the wireless or LAN connectivity. Few of my colleagues decided to leave home as it was more than an hour without electricity. Most of my clients who stayed away from office premises heard from their family about the net availability at home that made everyone prefer working at home rather than sitting idle in the office.

I went for a 1.14 mile walk within the office sky walk and found the whole building lit with emergency lamps and outside brightness.

At 12.30 P.M we heard our second announcement, this time they had figured out a different cause for the power failure, they said there was some issue with the transformer, the team was investigating on the issue and confirmed it will not be resolved before 2 p.m. They also conveyed there would be half an hour updates about the ongoing fixes for the power. In the time gap of 30 minutes for the next promulgation, my teammates gathered in our room to have a chit-chat about Diwali celebration. In between our boisterous conversation we heard a door knock, my client opened the closed door and was requesting us to pack home.
As power was out even in our residential area, we weren't willing to go home. In sometime we heard our third announcement that said workers are released for the reminder of the day, plant engineers are not excused. We didn't wait for a second, immediately we piled our things and started home.

Reached home at 1.15 P.M. Too early isn't it? Power supply was back by 2.15 P.M, but there was no details about the exact root cause.