Thursday, 13 December 2007

It's snowing

Snow, hail, rain and thunder. Yep, that's what you get for staying half way up the mountain in winter.
This kind of weather started 3 days ago, and it's giving us a hard time here in Dharamkot.
The first hazard is the coldness, but it's actually the easiest one to deal with.
Not long after the temperature dropped, we were then trapped inside the hotel by the rain and the freezing wind almost all day long.
Whenever the weather gets bad, the internet stops working.

The lightening and thunders...they are not just spectacles that I used to watch with great interest and enjoyment in New Zealand, here they are real hazards to electronic equipments. I keep hearing stories about how they burn out everything connected to the power outlet in the entire house.
Just before we moved into our current hotel, one of the power supply of their computer was burnt by the lightening.
Several times we have sparks coming out (not sure from where) near our computers after lightening, that we immediately shut down everything to make sure we don't lose our hardwares.

You may wonder, why don't they just install something (earthing or whatever) to prevent this from happening?
It's a good question, but there's no good answers. The conclusion would be: "This is India, what do you expect?"

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