A very interesting topic you have today. Us staying in South Africa are learning firsthand how important it is to prepare for Electricity Blackout. Our country power stations has not been maintained for the past 14 years and now we have blackouts without warning on a daily basis which lasts no less than 4 hours at a time. Our trips to work in the morning now takes us 2 hours to travel 12miles(20km) with traffic lights not working. Arriving at our office with no power to drive our call centres pc`s or switchboards has put another perspective on our daily support function. Our clients now find themselfs with corrupted databases.(I rebuild approc 20 daily). This has been happening the past 2 months and generators are unobtainable to purchase. We were and still are totally unprepared. Talk of "DARKEST AFRICA" is now the reallity. One of our previous prime minister preached of "The black danger". We thought he was talking about the black majority about to take over our country. Now we know he was refering to ESCOM our local power supplier.