my power went out!

That's amazing Thirty minutes, and you are not comfortable.We will roll out the drums in my community if we can enjoy such a previledge, light is such a previledge if you have for two hour without it going off. You will even be happy if it is shared as in one day on one day off. i wish i live in your country. you are really enjoying.

I couldn't go long without power. I have to admit that I'm not very well prepared for an emergency. I was lost a few years ago when we had that big blackout. I had no cash, and couldn't get any out, so, no gas, no groceries, so nothing. In a real emergency where we couldn't stay at the house for weeks, we could go to our cottage and live off the fireplace and woodstove. Would be a hardship though.

Yesterday evening i noticed your discussion in second page of the top discussions.. i was about to write that even we are experiencing this problem in area.. but to my surprise the computer switched off.. then i noticed even my fan stopped working.. later mom told me the power was cut lol.. and today again i founf your discussion, i dont know when will the power goes today!! lol.. yesterday i was responding many discussions i had opened a lot of windows and tabs but everything has gone seriously it took me one whole day to find out this disucssion.. well during the power cut i goto upstair as my neighbours come out there or otherwise i lie in my sofa starring at the ceiling.. or else i would just munch anything or if my guy is awake i'll pesture him with missed calls.. or i just irritate the tommy which is in the next building ( tommy is dog ) and our fridge is not working so no food is stored in fridge

Last December my power went out in my apartment complex, and it was out for five days. I was blessed enough that my parents live nearby, so I took me and my dog over there and stayed with them. A lot of other people had family or friends to go stay with, but some did not.

load shedding is very common in India, fortunately we have a proper schedule for the outage, they let us know it by prior announcements in newspaper, we have a schdule of 2hrs outage everyday during summers, so we tend to finish all bathing, washing laundry, ironing etc before the power goes. if it is in the evening we love to gaze at sky in complete darkness . As we have overhead electrical wires comming from main transformers, usually during monsoon trees tend to fall on them causing unexpected power outages, so in this case we do curse the elctricity company for not restoring the power back on time and just pray for it . We are so used to limited supply of power,it is a routine now.

Living in Pakistan, one has to experience this problem of power failures,especially during summer, for as high as 5 hours in a day.It affects everyday life a lot. I can hardly concentrate on my work, due to the hot & humid climate. Besides there are mosquito attacks as soon as the fan goes off. however, i try to manage,someway or the other at day time, but during nights it affects me a lot. Spending a sleepless night, starts with an awful day.

That is no news at at all here-we run a power system here in Uganda known as load-shading-where power is rationed-I am abit lucky because I fall within a reliable power grid-but elsewhere, black outs are more of the expected rather then the exception and it sounds quite normal!

i am very fortunate that i live in a country that seldom has a power cut-off... when i am still a child, i experience many power cut-offs in my home country and it can go for as long as 72 hours... it is really annoying as we can't really do anything when that happens especially at night when it is really dark... and you are right as well about the foods in the fridge and freezer... they can turn bad if the power goes off for too long... take care and have a nice day...

I live in a section of the Northeast that has old infrastructure and the power always goes out a couple of times every summer when everybody is running airconditioning. Usually, it's only for a few hours but sometimes it lasts a half day or so. The first couple times it happened at night, people got candles and went outside and talked. It was nice but after a few times, it got to be old hat and now everybody just takes a nap until power comes back on.

Thankfully,I've never experienced an extended period without power in the past! Maybe 24 hours or so,Max...I don't have much of a problem with it in the short term..I have an open fire in the Living room if the Oil Heating goes out,and a Gas cylinder heater as a backup...Got a gas stove for cooking and hot water..candles and loads of batteries for radios,flashlights,handheld TV...My only problem at the present time would probably be web withdrawal! (Must look into that...!)one of these li'l notebook puters,maybe,with one of those newfangled cellphone provider broadband dongles..and there's always the old favourite,snuggling up in bed..

We have occasional power cuts where I am. The worst was when we were without power for a whole day in winter. It got very cold and I ended up going out and to a restaurant to be in the warm. It does show you how dependent we are on electricity.

Ever since I have lived in this house there was a big old tree that I could see from my kitchen window. A couple of weeks ago about 10p.m. on a Sunday night there was a terrific thunder storm going on - then it got really windy - somewhat like a tornado. The wind just totally uprooted this tree and it fell over the power lines and onto the garage. We were without electricity for about 18 hours. Our freezer was full too so we called my grandaughter and sdhe came and got it and put it in her freezer. No TV - no internet - nothing just candles flickering. It sure makes you wonder about olden times when there was no electricity in homes. The good thing about this whole episode is the fact that if it had landed the other way and on to the house we would have been killed for sure.

Nearly 4 years ago to the day, on August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley hit about 1 mile from our home. We were without power for 7 days and it felt like 7 months. We did lose all of our food in the freezer and the fridge. Plus, there was no air conditioning. Believe me, in mid August in FL without air conditioning is NOT where you want to be! Did I mention that there was no ice? Once it all melted that was it. We had no ice for about 48 hours and there was no way to cool down. I over heated before noon on the day following the hurricane while helping my husband clean up the mess in our yard. I bet you're wondering how we slept. Well, we didn't. Even with the windows open, there are no real breezes that time of year. Plus, several neighbors around us were running their generators. They were so loud and annoying, we couldn't figure out how THEY were sleeping. Two of my sisters live within a mile of our house and they went 2 weeks with no power! I felt so sorry for them, I didn't know what to do. We figured out that the only reason we got power first is that we were on the same power lines as a nursing care facility a few blocks away. We thought they must have been on a priority list somewhere. Well, I'm glad your power came right back on. I agree with you, once you are without power, you realize that you are completely dependent upon it. We were so thrilled just to hear the voices on our battery-operated radio once we got it going. It just felt like somebody out there knew what we were going through and that we weren't alone.

Hello cher913, Not sooo bad it was only off for half hour, few weeks ago we had our power off for 6 hours and lucky enough we had candles, I'm always buying candle so they came in handy, we ate cheese and biscuts and I read a book by candle light, it was great. Tamarafireheart.

We did have our power off once for a day and a half. And that was because the usual lightening hit the transformer. I cannot give you an exact date when it occurred, because I never took notice of those things because I was too busy looking out the window and trying to see how far the power outage went. Usually when we had one, it was a local one and it affected just our block and the next and they fixed that in a couple of hours. The trouble is that most of these power outages happen on Sundays or when there is no one in the office. We put the stuff in the refrigerator down into the freezer and waited until it went back on. And I did decide to sweep the floor, and tried to keep busy.

I don't quite remember the Quebec incident because I was only a todler when it happened probably, maybe not though. There was an ice storm where I live where the power was off for about a week. I didn't really have to change my schedule too much. I just went out with friends all day and came home and slept of my family would sit down to a nice board game.