Last week after a scheduled 5 hour outage, Ede came up to change the locks on the meters. Of course after having had power for just 15 minutes and getting everything restarted this involved the moron pulling the meters in and out several times to test playing havoc with the inverter and everything running on the property. Their truck, their employee, their badge. He replaced a lock on one then took the second meter out put it in his truck and ran off with our employees shouting after him. Stole. The. Meter.
This in addition to no water at all again today. The pump down the hill breaks every other week. When they get it fixed they pump less than a swimming pool full of water up to the water tower on the hill to briefly open a few valves and let folks fill up their tinacos. Which run out. So, no water, no power (off again for another hour this morning). And now a letter saying Aduanas is going to start charging taxes on packages under $200 value in violation of DRCAFTA in their search for money beginning August 15.
Now outages every day for the last eight days in Los Cerros de Sosua. 8 hours Sunday night. All day Monday. Another hour this morning already. Called EdeNunca, which went like this:
"We're working on it. We have problems all across the zona". I told her yes, let's see "like giving free electricity to people who don't pay their bills, not paying your bills to the generators, not having enough generators, employees who steal meters, management that doesn't know how to run a for profit business, and treating your paying customers like mierda. When can we expect you to have that fixed?" "Que dijiste?" Idiots.
Over fifteen years here, with citizenship, and I am about ready to start over somewhere else.
The country is disintegrating.
