MALOLOS CITY – The first day of restoration of power supply in Bulacan was marked with one to two hour rotating brownouts on Thursday as business establishments resumed operations.
This developed after 141 people who evacuated at the height of typhoon Basyang returned home. Classes at all levels, which were suspended on Wednesday, resumed after public storm warning signal was lifted.
The Manila Electric Company was able to restore power supply in most parts of the province starting Wednesday night after almost 23 hours of Luzon wide black out that started 12:42 a.m. on the same day.
The restoration of power supply led to a vigorous online chatter on facebook.com, a popular social networking site on the internet where many Bulakenyos exchanged relief.
Even text messaging resumed after local cellular phone users were able to re-charged their units.
However, the first day of power restoration was marked by one to two hour rotating brown-outs that left some businessmen especially in this capital city wondering when will it be fully normalize.
This was affirmed by Provincial Administrator Jim Valerio who ordered that power generators at the provincial capitol on stand-by in case of brownouts.
He said that it is just part of their measures in order to keep their operations uninterrupted.
Valerio stressed that brown outs will slow down the capitol’s operations and many services to Bulakenyos will be delayed.
He also reported that 31 families or 141 evacuees in Barangay Sabitan in Malolos City have returned home.
This developed after 141 people who evacuated at the height of typhoon Basyang returned home. Classes at all levels, which were suspended on Wednesday, resumed after public storm warning signal was lifted.
The Manila Electric Company was able to restore power supply in most parts of the province starting Wednesday night after almost 23 hours of Luzon wide black out that started 12:42 a.m. on the same day.
The restoration of power supply led to a vigorous online chatter on facebook.com, a popular social networking site on the internet where many Bulakenyos exchanged relief.
Even text messaging resumed after local cellular phone users were able to re-charged their units.
However, the first day of power restoration was marked by one to two hour rotating brown-outs that left some businessmen especially in this capital city wondering when will it be fully normalize.
This was affirmed by Provincial Administrator Jim Valerio who ordered that power generators at the provincial capitol on stand-by in case of brownouts.
He said that it is just part of their measures in order to keep their operations uninterrupted.
Valerio stressed that brown outs will slow down the capitol’s operations and many services to Bulakenyos will be delayed.
He also reported that 31 families or 141 evacuees in Barangay Sabitan in Malolos City have returned home.
Valerio also reported that classes in all levels in the province have resumed after one day suspension due to brownout.
