Patras power grid went down for over 4 hours!
It is surprising for a large city like patras for its power grid to fail. So far no official explanation is filed though many unofficial reports from citizens stated that power grid was failing with some order. In particular the power down started from the southeast patras area for a short period (around 30 minutes) to the historical patras center(blackout duration was over 3 and a half hours) and to the Rion area (northeast Patras area). At the Patras center chaos took place at the streets since traffic lights went off and no policemen showed up to control the traffic.
Concerning the wifi network; many nodes went down especially those with small UPS. kOlga (pwmn.net_kolga) went down after 1 hour of usage others lasted longer others failed at once. One node though lasted and fought bravely against the power failure sabotage to the PWMN network. The pwmn.net_solar also known as pwmn.net_kotetsi due to its electrical power independence still is working.
No reports have showed up in the local news [1] [2] [3] [4] regarding the incident. Lets hope it won’t happen again. The public electric company called in short DEH should be more responsible towards its customers and at least file a report even 5 hours after the incident. The disrespect to the customer should NOT continue and will NOT be tolerated…