I Think I'm Going To Lose My Internet Connection and Power! Help!

Hey Opal, I feel for you! This VERY rarely happens to me, I mean maybe once on a night time in the last 15 years or something lol! I got a few torches and candles in the living room, read some of a book. Played a portable games console if you have one! Hope it stays up for you though! Take care, Lee.

Get some candles and flashlights, some hot water a boiling (just in case you need it for something) and have some snacks ready for the grabbing. A blanket (if it's cold), some accordion folded paper (for a fan) if it's hot, and make sure the corded phone is working, or the cellphone is charged before the power goes out so you can call the power company.

just light candles all around read a book and realax if ya cant read that way just relax. play games if some one wht ya

I hate when I lose power. I am lucky enough to not lose power too often here. But I do have many candles on hand for just such a situation. If I didnt have a house full of kids id run a bath and relax with a good book via candle light for the night. Good luck hope you dont lose power.

I hate it when I lose power. There is no light for the bathroom or kitchen. Both rooms are far from any windows. Wouldn't you know the two most essential rooms in the place, and if you don't have light you're in big trouble. Sherlock sees better than I do in the dark. I guess I could train him to bring me a Coke.

We're having real wacky stormy weather here too, been raining all day/night and real windy--I've been hearing on the news that there are a lot of power outages and keeping my fingers crossed things will be all right. Here's hoping your power stays okay and that you can have your internet and mylotting--as for what to do if the power does go off..mmmm...maybe read by candlelight? Today/night perfect time to just stay snuggled in bed...in fact I got up later than usual myself...LOL

I've played cards, real cards....solitaire is funny when you play it online and then dig out a deck of cards. My kids always liked playing hid & seek in the house when it was dark (with the stipulation that there were rooms they couldn't hide in) the best place one of their friends found was lying on top of my counter. Get a flashlight and clean something? a few candles, a pen & some paper & you could write ideas for the next time you're able to get on mylot for future discussions. I read by candle light, or just go to bed early so I can get up early and hope I can find a way to keep warm.

Catch up on sleep, hehehehe. I'd love to do that, really. Needs sleep so bad, and especially nowadays in my country, it's starting to have such a cooling and nice weather..

hi opal26 or is it 3, Iget confused, are you and the other opal related by any chance? hope you have your computer on a surge protector if you have an electrical storm there. well if it went dark here I would have to use my handy dandy med, sized flashlight as I have no candles here in Gold crest. I would read til its time to go to bed then just do that, but I sure would miss my mylotting. I dont have any game thingy so reading would be my only hope. get yourself lots of candles and have matches ready in case. hope the lights stay on for you though.

i cant believe this discussion wasnt delivered in my mail. i have you on notify because ive been waiting for you to make a new discussion anyway, i know what you mean. i had problems connecting one night here during one crazy storm which we seldom get in az. i was almost crying. my son said see mom you'd go crazy in another state where they have these all the time. like when you was in florida. he was right.

We make a game of it when the power goes out. We light loads of candles or the touch lights and tell ghost stories or try to think of how many things we use electricity for that we really take for granted. You know, like when you decide since the lights went out, you'll just make a pot of coffee...except the coffee pot uses electricity, too! If it's cold, we pile loads of blankets and quilts on and tell 'warm' stories to keep the chill at bay. We also use it as a great excuse for finishing off the ice cream (wouldn't want it to melt. No matter that it would take HOURS for that to happen.). And last, but not least, we all bed down in the same room, so no one is afraid of being in the dark at bedtime.

Hello my friend We are having bad weather here as well, I went out to go to the post office the wind blew me all over the place, I was like what the heck, I didn't see anyone else suffering like me I couldn't understand why the wind was picking on me lol Anywho I would light a few candles and sit and talk with my honey, when the candle gets low light another and talk some more,you said keep it clean lol No worries sweety, I am sure if this happens you will make the best of it. Smoochesssss

I hate power outages, but I deal with them as best we can. I get to light candles, and just spend time with my hubby talking or listening to battery-powered radio. It would drive me crazy not to have some kind of sound. I have to have a t.v. or radio or something. And, batteries are my best friend. My laptop also has a battery on it and I could use it a little bit without power. No internet, but the computer can still be used . I have some music on it and a couple of downloaded movies as well too that I could watch if I really wanted to watch something.

If you think that there will be a brownout or power will be gone soon, charge everything now, such as psp, cellphone, laptop, ipods, etc. because atleast when power is gone you can still play games with your PSP, listen music with your ipod, call or text some friends so that you can hang out and entertain yourself with your laptop applications. so be prepared. ;p

we had the lights go out Friday night for about 30 seconds, felt like 5 minutes. I was just about to get up and find a flashlight when the power came back on. if the weather had been bad, I could've understood it, but it wasn't, very strange

As I said earlier, we had the storm here yesterday. It appears to be increasing in intensity as it goes further north. I hope ALL is well with you & the storm is hauling butt across your area. I can't stand it when the electricity goes out & I can't get into myLot. It makes me feel like I'm losing my mind when it first goes off!!! It takes my brain several minutes to acknowledge that I've actually disconnected from the internet...then comes the panic attack!!! We lost our electricity yesterday...fortunately, it was for only a couple minutes, but it felt like hours!!! Hope this is finding you sane & safe!!! Hope this finds you WELL!!!

I would go crazy without my TV that's for sure. If it was night time I just go to bed but in the day time I would go to the bar and hope there's some action going on.

Believe me you will survive without power and the internet. It's tough but can be done! IN late Jan of this year and the first of Feb. a heavy ice storm hit us and we were without power for 6 days. We had to buy a generator and the roads were icy and we were detoured round the towns and then when they hooked up the generator, it blew out my computer! OH horrors !! but I managed. I had a a laptop that I am using now and its ok but would rather have a desk top and will when they get cheaper. So yes, I'm keeping it clean ! BUT , when your lights are flickering like that, TURN OFF THAT COMPUTER OR THE POWER OUTAGE COULD WIPE OUT THAT COMPUTER. Even tho I had mine on a surge protector when the lines went down I still lost it. Always turn off that computer at the slightest site of a storm. Be wary of what matters most.

Hiya Opal, Hope you have got your power back on by now. What would I do on a dark night well first of all I´m very lucky to be able to use Gas at the moment to cook as I have had electricity to cook with before and this place is famous for power cuts. Well being able to cook with Gas I would make something very quick as with having no light to use things would be a bit more dicey. I would put the Radio on and listen to that and cuddle up under a warm quilt with a nice warm drink after eating and try to talk to these lot who would probably be stuck on their mobile phones to their friends talking bemoaning and bewailing about the misery that had struck in their lives (grin). The last time a power cut struck they were in the middle of their beauty sessions in the bathroom hence no light no mirror nada nothing. Me being used to this kind of thing and that does not mean to say I welcome it I had to put up with almost 4 months of continual power cuts, going to work in the dark coming back from work in the dark in one of the most dismal winters on record. No television after ten o´clock the power was rationed out and how. But we did have a Gas cooker so that was a Godsend. For more cream to be added on we had continual Snow falls we got rid of one fall and back it came after a nice Sunny Day this continued for almost four months so I have experienced quite a few power cuts apart from the ones we have had here up to three days at a time with no light or water but thats nothing to what they are putting up with in Girona the other side of Spain the old electric pylons fell down last week like a set of dominos and has left thousands of people with no power all because they did not want to renew them. However People use their own genius when it comes to this happening they are using the snow to keep their food fresh the very thing that caused the pylons to come down and lots of people are using social clubs and football stadiums to get together and are able to eat and keep warm because although it´s on the coast it can be very cold there indeed. Take care hugs Sue.xxx

well not the end of the world, and must realized that the internet is not everything in the world. There is much that can be done while the power is out and for starters life must go on.