Chile Forum

Power just came back on here in Las Condes... at least for the moment. Who was NOT affected by the outage?

It was a country wide blackout apparently. One person said "the flaw happened at the distribution centre, so they couldnt redirect the electricity.So it all went black"

Yep, it happened in La Serena too.

They asshats said Coquimbo to Puerto Montt.

back on in temuco. Hmmmmmmmm, might be a good idea to put a little redundancy in the grid.

Here's the up-to-date info on the blackout. If anything more is mentioned on it between now and when I go to bed I'll update the story.

http://www.thepulse.cl/2010/03/14/power ... -darkness/

You know, this country is getting a little too exciting for me at the moment.

Probably hackers.

This, like some of the early governmental wobbling on Feb 27th, shows the country is way too centralized. Piñera has been talking about decentralization, but his campaign site is down (or taken offline?) right now so I can't link to that part of his program. The official site for the government is all about Piñera right now and doesn't have search or contact info, while the links for news releases from the prior government are broken. They rushed to make it look like Obama WH's website (all about social media) but made a superficial job of it (I hate seeing form before function: look we have a new shining logo!). So it's hard to know what's the official plan for decentralization right now. It looks like this was the plan during campaigning:
http://www.granvalparaiso.cl/v2/2009/12 ... -efectiva/

I'm not holding my breath on meaningful decentralization happening in Chile. It's a shame. That France (where I come from) is highly centralized kind of makes sense for historical and geographical reasons, but this type of organization doesn't make much sense for Chile.

Thanks, thingit, for shedding a little light on the situation.

I honestly think Pinera and the center right want to decentralize because if for no other reason it would insure them another battleground even if they loose the next election. At the least there needs to be some direct elections on the regional level, and more autonomy in spending the money.

was out in Vina too,, also cell fone wasnt working,, this seems to be a constant problem,, do landlines in Chile work better? i am still in USA,, but my fiance is in Vina,, she only has cell,, does anyone recomend i get her a landline? With all the rumbling lately, seems cell service is out alot.I just dont know if landline would be worse or better. any input?

Garry wrote:was out in Vina too,, also cell fone wasnt working,, this seems to be a constant problem,, do landlines in Chile work better? i am still in USA,, but my fiance is in Vina,, she only has cell,, does anyone recomend i get her a landline? With all the rumbling lately, seems cell service is out alot.I just dont know if landline would be worse or better. any input?

Landlines are worse, if you ask me. We've had one that hasn't worked since January and it takes 46 phone calls to 23 people to figure out why. I actually find the cell signal here to be very reliable, save once-in-a-decade type emergencies like we've had lately.