Chapter 13 Power Outage
In the next few days, the whole family exercised at home.
The little monkey has seen Tang Monk rescue Sun Wukong from the Five Finger Mountain in Journey to the West.
People in the owners’ group discuss the high temperatures every day.
Perhaps the local tycoon's behavior last time was too eye-catching.
Many owners in Mingyue Huafu followed suit.
As a result, necessities in the surrounding shops began to be in short supply.
The government has also begun to order major companies to give employees high-temperature holidays, and those that really cannot give employees holidays will implement a night shift system.
But things got messed up after just one day.
Someone working from home late at night suddenly called out.
The community owners’ group suddenly started being bombarded with messages, and everyone was complaining about one thing.
"Why did the power suddenly go out?!"
"It's already one in the fucking morning, how come it's still over 30 degrees?"
“How can we survive without air conditioning during a power outage?”
"There's a pregnant woman in my family. What's going on with the property management?"
At this time, the owners of Mingyue Huafu thought that there was a power outage in the community.
Little did they know that the entire city had a power outage.
The air conditioner also stopped working due to the power outage, and soon the temperature in the entire room rose.
Su Yu is a light sleeper.
The hot and humid environment made Su Yu rub his sleepy eyes.
The diesel generator prepared earlier also came in handy. The 7-kilowatt diesel generator is enough to power the air conditioner in the house.
After Su Yu confirmed that all the lights in the house were off, she prepared to run the generator.
The generator on the 26th floor is placed in a specially designed soundproof room.
Anti-vibration brackets are placed under the generator, and effective soundproofing screens are placed around it.
In addition, the wall construction of Mingyue Huafu is made of super sound-insulating materials.
Even in the quiet early morning, Su Yu and his team can use the diesel generator with ease.
As the antifreeze and diesel entered, the diesel generator generated electricity smoothly.
The air conditioner started running again, and Su Yu felt a lot cooler.
The family members took a bath in their respective rooms, but the little monkey did not wake up because of the change in room temperature.
Su Yu was sleepless, browsing the messages in the group.
As an upscale residential area, Mingyue Huafu is mostly inhabited by high-paid office workers or small business owners.
They tend to enjoy life, and very few of them have generators at home.
Everyone can only rely on taking cold showers to cool down.
Soon, the property management responded to the power outage.
"Dear owners, we apologize for informing you that this power outage is not caused by a malfunction in Mingyue Huafu, but rather a city-wide power outage, resulting in a severe imbalance in power supply and demand in the power system."
In short, this high temperature has made the city's power supply system unable to meet everyone's electricity needs.
There was no response from the city government.
The sudden power outage left everyone with no choice but to endure.
The next day, seven o'clock.
Su Ma smoothed Su Yu's quilt.
Su Yu's arms exposed outside the quilt were cold, so Su's mother turned up the air conditioner in Su Yu's room a few degrees.
The cool and comfortable Su's house was in stark contrast to the outside.
People who got up early did not wait for the power supply, but waited for even hotter temperatures.
Current temperature – 49℃.
Such high temperatures, coupled with the lack of air conditioning.
Many people have experienced symptoms such as headache, dizziness, thirst and sweating.
Such symptoms are the precursors of heat stroke.
Within half an hour, Su Yu saw many ambulances appearing at Mingyue Huafu.
Many private cars started to go out, and their destination was the hospital.
Major media outlets have begun pushing relevant news such as "What to do at home after heat stroke."
Of course, it's not just the city where Su Yu is. Major hospitals around the world are admitting a large number of heat stroke patients due to the high temperature.
Even more serious are patients with heat stroke.
These patients died before the hospital even had time to cool them down.
The supply and demand of hospitals is clearly beginning to be insufficient.
Almost all the ambulances were out receiving patients.
There was no electricity supply in the city and the hospital's electricity supply was also very tight.
At this moment, people were helpless as the power was not coming back, and they could only watch their family members faint from heat stroke without being able to do anything.
There was a long period of high temperature and drought, without even a hint of wind.
This puts cities that rely on hydropower and wind power generation in an even more difficult situation.
Under the government's emergency measures, only public facilities began to use lighting normally.
Each city started to supply electricity in different areas and time periods.
Air conditioning has almost become an impossible dream.
At that time, in the Su family, Su's mother and Su's father were each reading a magazine.
Su Yu, who was standing by, was eating a mint popsicle while stroking the fur on the golden monkey's body.
Thanks to air conditioning, the temperature in their room is only 22℃.
Su Yu understood that from this day on, the world would gradually move towards chaos.
People suffer terribly in bad weather.
But she is just Su Yu, and her goal in this life is just to spend the remaining decades peacefully with her parents.
Even if she knew how the world would change in the future, it would be useless.
Since she couldn't save the world, she let go of her desire to help others.
The news on TV tried to stabilize the shaken public sentiment, but too many people still felt that the end of the world was coming.
Resources are starting to run out of supply.
This idea has caused people to flock to major supermarkets and vegetable markets to stock up on goods.
In hot weather.
Every time people stock up, their physical strength is greatly consumed.
Su Yu looked down through the single layer of glass.
People who go out earlier can still buy a few bottles of water, but people who go out in the afternoon can only buy a few bottles of water.
By the evening, the person who came back was holding only two cucumbers.
Many people in the owners’ group reported on the scorching sun.
Fortunately, the power supply in the area where Mingyue Huafu is located started this afternoon, and people can enjoy air conditioning for a while.
"Luckily the call came. If it hadn't come, my phone would have been out of battery."
"All my money is on my phone. I don't have any cash at home. If my phone runs out of battery, I can't even go buy groceries."
"There's no need to stock up, it's just the high temperature."
"Why is everyone stockpiling water? The water hasn't been cut off at home."
"Who would dare to go out to work in such high temperatures without buying some water? What will the family drink then?"
Su Yu stretched and entered the kitchen.
It's her turn to cook today.
Su Yu made a very light dinner.
A serving of pork ribs and winter melon soup, a serving of sweet and sour pork tenderloin, and a serving of bitter melon scrambled eggs.
The fruit after the meal was the chilled watermelon that Su Yu took out of the freezer.
With the help of a juicer, Su Yu also made four cups of watermelon juice.
Su Yu turned off the unused air conditioners in the room, leaving only the central air conditioner in the living room.
The extra electricity allows Su's father to use the dishwasher.
The fully charged sweeping robot also cleaned the entire 26th floor.
After finishing everything, Su Yu carried the garbage out the door.
In order to avoid being discovered that their family lived in Building 10, Su Yu usually went directly down to the underground parking lot.
Then take a detour to get out.
The basement was full of people at this moment.
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