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Just when it feels safe to step back into the water, something sparks the gods' anger; they immediately respond by unleashing havoc, delivering yet another unhinged and surreal week.On Monday night, a major thunderstorm brought local flooding and a severe explosion at the electrical substation at Waltloo. Half the city was left without electricity. Over here, the continuing storms and unyielding dark skies rendered the solar backup system more or less obsolete, and we had power for exactly six hours over the following 72.Work was not spared. We did the best we could, but there is a limit to what two residential-sized petrol generators can accomplish. Keeping a few lights and computers going is one thing; running two commercial digital printers is quite another.By the end of it, September's sales target had become just another casualty of the prolonged power outage.On Wednesday afternoon, in the middle of the ensuing chaos on the unilluminated roads, an anonymous minibus taxi came…