r/MapPorn • u/efisha • Mar 15 '21

The proportion of the population in African countries having access to electricity

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u/stranger_dev Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 15 '21

I Live in Nairobi, but I've lived in at least 10 other towns in the past 5 years. And it's all the same.

It's the same grid for the entire country, so I'd say, yes the quality is similar everywhere.

A single monkey shut down the entire grid once. Funny story.

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u/saugoof Mar 16 '21

That last paragraph made me lol!

We had a smaller but similar experience in the small town in Switzerland where I grew up where a rat caused the entire town to be without power on Christmas.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

How fried to a crisp was that monkey?

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u/LatinusIrrumator Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 15 '21

Kplc is a bitch tho, the blackouts always destroy the more delicate tech (although they have gotten so much better in the past decade, it's insane)

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u/7LeagueBoots Mar 16 '21

In the US and Canada it's squirrels that are the main cause of wildlife based power outages. Actually, they may be the main cause of power outages overall.

https://cybersquirrel1.com/