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Dubai has power outage, and one of the reasons given was exceeding the allotted supply. Seabee wonders: “People exceeding their allotted supply? Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know that there's an ‘allotted supply'. Or is it a language problem in the reporting?“

Posted by Haitham Sabbah

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