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Seeker_Of_Knowledge- t1_j5jzbfk wrote

Reply to comment by Wrong_Adhesiveness87 in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735

It is really hell on earth. I have relatives who live there and for the most, they are using other forms of food reservations besides fridges (salt, dry meat...)

They have small batteries that they recharge in this one hour that they can use for one light in the house for the rest of the day.

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Horror-Childhood6121 t1_j5kccd0 wrote

Not having a refrigerator is hell on earth?

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Seeker_Of_Knowledge- t1_j5kdf7t wrote

The life there in general. Refrigerator is only one problem among the countless ones they have.

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Horror-Childhood6121 t1_j5kfbme wrote

But we're talking about the lack of electricity here. Having lived off grid for almost 10 years, the first few without refrigeration, it was hardly hell on earth.

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rezzbian419 t1_j5khi59 wrote

you’re pointing out that you voluntarily lived off grid, while lebanese citizens are not choosing to live like this — their gov is subjecting them to it

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Horror-Childhood6121 t1_j5khxdj wrote

I agree completely with your assessment, ..but srsly..hell on earth? Also seems like power outages are somewhat common ..

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rezzbian419 t1_j5kkxl3 wrote

seems that you’re completely ignorant on what’s going on in lebanon if you are still hung up about refrigerators

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Horror-Childhood6121 t1_j5klpz6 wrote

Woyld you describe Lebanons lack of electricity as "hell on earth"?

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Seeker_Of_Knowledge- t1_j5kmhuu wrote

I would describe not having food to eat and none of the government facilities working as intended and not finding jobs and a full month of your work is only worth 100$ where the prices went ×50 higher as hell on earth.

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Iron-Doggo t1_j5krtcr wrote

But you had time, money and knowledge of how to effectively live off grid. These people do not. That is why it was a smooth transition for you and a rough transition for them. They don’t have the advantages you do that enable you to live comfortably off grid. It’s a struggle for survival for them. For you it’s just a relaxing way of life.

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Horror-Childhood6121 t1_j5kw9z4 wrote

It was no smooth transition for me..but not comparing to this. Relaxing? You have no idea..but again, just put that in as I have lived without electricity.. in our part of the country we have regular outages so even when we were on the grid, it was something we deal with regularly. Parts of our county were out of electricity for almost 2 weeks recently.

Hardly " hell on earth".

However it seems that the power grid in these places has been unreliable for many many years, and lack of electricity is not an unusual situation. So they have had time.

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