When there is power failure, what do you do to make waiting time worthwhile?

i have noticed that, too. power failures have been happening in my area, too, for a couple of times. one afternoon, i came back from the gym, and when i walked inside my home, i noticed it seems kind of dark for daytime. the digital clock was off, and the frig light was off. i walked outside and saw men working on the electric power, and i asked them how much longer. and they said, 2 more hours. i couldnt even shower because the water was cold. so, i just lighted a candle and waited for 2 hours in my sweaty clothes, reading a magazine.

that's sad there mmt, i think it's best if you saved a lot of water and prepare a lot of candles and flash-lights in case something bad happens to your electricity. well, i can always sleep for an hour or two or play with my cats, i have two of them. . black outs are a complete annoyance most specially if you're a regular internet user.

We mainly get power cuts in the winter and when we do sometimes they can last for an hour up to half the day.I always have candels as well as torches where i know where they are just incase we do get a power cut.What i do to pass the time is some housework if i can see to do it as i hate sitting around doing nothing.Other times we will all sit and talk or the children would play with a hand held game as that way they do not get bored.

the last time there was a power failure that lasted for hours was when there was a huge typhoon battering our province.. during the power outage, we just listened to some songs using my netbook ( which I had thought of charging because I was already anticipating the power outage ).. and then we played upwords. It's like scrabble but with some modifications.. It's actually more amusing than scrabble.

For me, when we get power failures, we do the same. We light candles, too, of course, but we also get out our guitar and beatbox and play music until the power gets back which usually takes just about an hour. If it takes too long, we'd hang out right by the curb of our home and enjoy the breeze with neighbors and have small chit chats.

Power outages are good for families to sometimes re-connect with each other. In today's hectic world we rely so heavily on electrical items. We haven't had a power interruption for months and months but that night we enjoyed sitting outside watching the stars and just chatting. Where I lived before, we had them often but that was really an inconvenience in winter with a small baby. During power cuts I often wonder how they managed in the 'old days' without the things we so often take for granted.

Its hard to do anything when there is no power, since most of our appliances work on electricity. But with the recent storms, we've had two days without power sometimes. This gave me time to work on my cross-stitch and other things that I put off.

seldom power failure seldom happen in our residential sub-district. but when comes, will sleep or keep thinking the past...

Each time when there is no electricity, normally everyone will become so active. It's like a story telling session especially about ghost story and sometimes, everybody starts to sing! Even though how much we hated it because of the mosquitoes, but it's great for bonding and we did have fun.

Well, just same like you, we lighted the candles, and if it's not too late @nite, i like to go out to the outside of the house or the yard and just Looks arround and see the neighbour hood.. while waited the power to return. But, if it's too late @nite we just go to sleep.

Play board games with the family if we can see what were doing, when I had a gf who I lived with, we played under the covers...lol

Hi moneymaking, well brownouts are sometimes are unpredictable. Last time was during a typhoon and it lasted for 2 days. While we dont have electricity, at daytime i go on with my usual work but at nighttime, we just lie down in bwd and do a lot of catching up. My daughter tells stories about the novels she read, about her teachers and friends in schools until we fell asleep. In the office, we have a generator but use of electrical gadgets like the computer and aircon is not allowed because one generator cannot supply the needed power. So we do whatever we can do like filing and reviewing documents.

Light a couple candles and pull out some homework or needlework. There is nothing to distract you, no computer or tv to pull you away from it and it always seems so much quieter when the power goes out.

We also had power failure last night it lasted for more than an hour, what we did is we spend the time outside enjoying the stars in the skies in no time then the power is back our son get to appreciate the beauty of the skies when its dark.

I have to admit, I find it a little funny, when I hear about people not knowing what to do during a power outage. I remember some years ago, we had a power outage that lasted several days. Many people that lived around us said that since they had no electricity they couldn't cook. Hmmm... Let's see you have a grill... What is that a non cooking surface? Or is it there to just look pretty. The other thing that bothered me was hearing them state that they had nothing to do. It was like they couldn't live with out the electricity at all as if they don't remember the things we did when we were kids like grabbing a book and reading, playing cards or board games, how about telling stories or just talking with each other. It is amazing how our societies have changed in such a short amount of time. Yes, I admit it can be an inconvenience in many ways, but we also need to look at the other side of the coin, how did we live before with out it? What did we do when we didn't have computers or video gaming machines?

I text, or call a friend to kill the boredom, if not I'll just sleep. If I can't sleep, I'll just go out and go to a friend's house ^_^ Nothing more that I can do when power is out. I can't sleep either because it's too hot and I need air. haha. best choice for me is to go out ^_^ Enjoy Mylot

I usually play chess or cards with friends. A little candle light or emergency lamp will be good enough for those kind of games

when power outages ,I often stay still to wait for the power to return.in fact ,I often go to bad.

i don't waste my time.will start to messaging to my girl friends in my mobile phone to kill that power off time.

man if u are worried about a one hour power failure then u myt juz die if u were 2 come here in nepal we have laod shedding of upto 10 hours a day (5 hrs twice a day) in a modern time like this living electricity is so dam hard nd our load sheddings go upto 2 to 3 months also