#Karachiblackout: K-Electric customers unleash fury on social media amid outages

Karachi residents aren't buying the utility company's latest excuse

For the second time in a week, faults in the 220 Mega Watt (MW) extra high tension power line from Bin Qasim power station left swathes of Karachi without electricity on Sunday.

The K-Electric supply company said that due to 99 per cent humidity in Pipri, the 220MW Piri-ICI power line was tripping repeatedly, disrupting supply to 10 out of 64 grids.

But residents of Karachi weren't buying it with thousands unleashing their wrath on social media.

Some were simply not buying the latest excuse by K-Electric

https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787/status/619997922348785664

Whenever they say that feeder has tripped, this come to mind :) #KarachiBlackout pic.twitter.com/obmGoEj3Ha

— Zeeshan (@ZeeshanSharfi) July 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/chaayecharsi/status/620181369621102592

Some found a 'dark' sense of humour  

Mutual hate for @KElectricPk can unite this country.

— Shumail (@Shumyl) July 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/BabyBhutto/status/618936841689903104

Someone in @KElectricPk must be a die hard fan of #TheDarkKnight #Batman

— Arsalan Taj (@ArsalanGhumman) July 12, 2015

Latest picture of #Karachi taken by NASA from space@KElectricPk pic.twitter.com/KLiOJL3lvq

— MAJYD AZIZ (@MajydAziz) July 11, 2015

KElectric: Sir, why haven't you paid your bill yet?

Me: Due to technical fault my feeder tripped. Teams are on it. Inconvenience regretted

— Homer (@jawahomer) July 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/SabeenKhann/status/620167178981998592

Others just begged for mercy and questioned life altogether 

Rehem @KElectricpk rehem. Aaj to spare karday tay

— jehan_ara (@jehan_ara) July 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/BushraShekhani/status/620180516596137984

Whyyyyyyy? #KarachiBlackout

— Sanam Jung (@SanamJungPK) July 11, 2015

Gurgling of generator and everything enveloped in darkness is what I see and hear these days. #KarachiBlackout #4thMajorOutage

— Laila Raza (@LylaRaza) July 12, 2015

Let's not forget the conspiracy theorists 

There's something fishy with these breakdowns and tariff hikes. #KarachiBlackout

— Anas Mallick (@AnasMallick) July 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787/status/619994357706326016

https://twitter.com/SaraMuzzammil/status/620026357485928448

#KarachiBlackout fix this for once! End the corruption.

— Mohammed T Nasser 🏁🏎 (@mtnasser) July 11, 2015

And while K-Electric's team is extremely social media savvy, the utility company had its hands full on Sunday with thousands of Twitter and Facebook users tagging the company's social media accounts. Somehow, we feel this isn't going to be the last time either.

The tweet limit of @KElectricPk has exceeded. Kindly DM them your queries so that they can respond accordingly. Teams are aware and working.

— Arsalan M. Khan (@amk) July 12, 2015