When I was a kid, my family always kept candles at home for emergencies. This was basic common sense in Taiwan. After flashlights became popular, we kept flashlights at home.Power outages caused by natural disasters, man-made disasters, and electric shocks from animals are common sense. There is nothing to be surprised about. Power outages will occur when the wires short-circuit and trip, when the current is too large and the fuse burns out, when trees fall and crush the wires, and when lightning strikes the transformer box. There are too many situations that can cause power outages. If the power is normal when any above situation happens, that's the time we have to worry about it.
I remember that the network of a former company was intermittent for a while. The network was optical fiber, and the quality was quite poor. My colleagues thought it was a problem with the Chunghwa Telecom and kept asking them to repair it. It was not until we moved to a new office and removed all the network cables. We found that the network cables running from the ceiling were bitten by rats and were broken in several places. No wonder the signal was so poor.
At this time, everyone realized that they had wrongly blamed Chunghwa Telecom. Fortunately, the rats only bit the network line. If they had bitten the electric wires, wouldn't it have caused a power outage or even a fire? Can we blame the Taipower and the lack of nuclear power plants for this?
小時候在家裡常備蠟燭以備不時之需,這是生活的基本常識,等手電筒普及後就是常備手電筒了。
因天災人禍動物觸電造成停電,這根本就是常識,有什麼好大驚小怪的。電線短路跳電就會停電,電流過大保險絲燒掉也會停電,樹木倒塌壓倒電線會停電,閃電打到變電箱會停電,造成停電的原因太多了,這時候如果不停電才是要擔心的事情。
記得某前公司的網路有一段時間一直斷斷續續很糟糕,明明是光纖卻品質這麼差,同事都以為是中華電信的問題,一直找他們來維修。直到搬辦公室前,將所有網路線拆下,才發現從天花板走線的網路線被老鼠咬的很淒慘,好幾處都要斷不斷的,難怪訊號很差。
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