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Electricity Horror Stories

August 17, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

The electricity situation in Lebanon has become so bad bloggers are using the very little they have of it to vent to the rest of the world. Here are two such accounts with details guaranteed to annoy you like this one:

The standard crescendo of UPSes went off, a veritable Christmas-like twinkling of little red and green lights flickered as appliances turned off as the apartment reverberated with beeps and pings.

You read those and you feel like pulling someone’s hair.