In the middle of the infernal heat wave that pulverizes all the temperature records for a March in the City of Buenos Aires, the porteños add an almost dramatic plea to the plea for the thermometer to drop: that the power not be cut off
.
It is that during the moments in which the temperature comfortably exceeded 35 degrees,
almost 32 thousand people also had to deal with the lack of electricity supply.
That is, they did not have a fan, or air conditioning, or a refrigerator to defend themselves.
They are cuts that arrive almost randomly: in some cases they last an hour,
in others, more than a day
.
Without notice, without certainties, without answers.
The light goes out and it is not known when it returns.
This is how he explained to
Clarín
Karina (50), a self-employed worker from Caballito who tries to put humor on him:
of the last 11 days, in 9 he lacked electricity.
"We started with the cuts on Friday, March 3.
The first cut lasted 26 hours
, until 5 p.m. on Saturday. On Sunday we had, but on Monday another 22 hours were cut, until Tuesday at midmorning," he says.
Then he followed with two "short" interruptions, barely an hour and a half at dinner time.
And, when he thought he was ready, on Sunday afternoon the power went out again.
At noon on Monday, he still hadn't come back.
At the moment,
they are supported by the solidarity of the neighbors
.
It is that his building —located on Parral and Rivadavia— has two phases, and those who have electricity throw a shoe from window to window that is used for the basics: charging the cell phone, plugging in the refrigerator and turning on the PC for those who live off the street. home
office
"Since the first cut, I have already made 8 claims, every day.
Without an explanation, you can't talk to anyone
," he laments.
Not having a human voice to give you an answer also bothers you.
But the situation is not exclusive to the City and is also repeated in Greater Buenos Aires.
"In the center of Adrogué we suffered several cuts during the last 10 days, in the middle of a heat wave. The most frustrating thing is not having precisions about when the supply returns, you try to communicate and they always answer you with an automatic message, without any precision
"
, says Alejandra, who lives in front of Plaza Espora, in the center of the town in the south of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
"In general, they are cuts that extend for more than five hours and affect different phases, as if they were in stages.
It implies losing hours of work, resting badly and having to throw away food
that does not resist the 40 thermal of the last days "he adds.
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