What will you do without electricity?

haha. it is often happen to us also, but we are all aware. :) It really makes me bored sometimes, no entertainment at all. it is really hard to live without electricity if u were born that the electricity already exist..

for me, i go outside our house to find fresh some air, together with our neighbors, talking each other having fun. because we don't have a generation and i can't afford to by it.. but before i go outside i'll check first our lamp/candles to be in good place that i could not be down by mouse or a cat. because candles and kerosene is one of reason why there is a fire accident happen.

I would go crazy. I'm very dependent on electricity. I've had these problems before, but it helps to have a backup energy source, like a generator. Solar power helps too. and battery backed up power units.

I couldn't imagine the picture of life without electricity. I used to encounter electrical outage when I was a young boy. Compared with that time, nowadays we rely highly on electricity. We do housework by various electrical appliance. We acquire fun from TV and PC games. We get the information we need from Internet. Without electricity, all of the above products and services would no longer exist, which would be a 100% nightmare!

Yes it is irritating. We've had power failures twice now. One yesterday and another one earlier. I just browse with my phone and participate here in mylot. It usually takes about two hours for the electricity to come back so it's not really a big deal.

I will do without electricity, are I wash my clothes by hand and play indoor activities like chess and scrabble.It's good hobby.

This is a very timely question since for the past few days, we are having a rotational blackout so I become really irritated especially because when the rotational blackout hits the time slot of my favorite tv show, csi: miami AAAAARGH. hahaha but instead of stressing out about the loss, I decided to focus on a more helpful task to do: reading books. Now that I graduated from college, I am not busy anymore and having excuses of not reading my pile of books is not valid anymore so every time I have the free time, I read some books. And oh by the way, the good thing about our rotational blackout, (yeah it also has a good thing, I just found out after reading your post) is that we don't get the blackout while we are sleeping. It mostly hits us during or after lunch so we can still manage a lil bit when it's extremely hot. heehee

Hi Naxous, Have you asked your power company what is causing your power to go out so much? I have lived in places that lose power often but not every night. That is a bit much. One house that we lived in the power went out any time there was any amount of wind or snow. Trees were the culprit. Once we had the trees trimmed back away from the power lines it stopped happening so much. Is it just your place that loses power or do your neighbors as well?

Hi Naxous, I rarely face that kind of problem here. But its still happen once in a while and it is totally not a good experience especially if it is happen during night. It is hot inside the house when there is no fan. We definitely can not sleep that time because of the heat and there are a lot of mosquitoes singing near to our ears.

Here in our place it is a time bound program.The Electricity department will inform through Newspaper about their power shut down timings.Earlier it was 2 hours shut down but now it has been increased to 3 hours. Each month the timings will be changed.This month our electricity shut down timing is 12 to 3 PM IST. We plan accordingly. Happy myLotting.

dear Naxous, I do really not usually meet the power off in my city. So sometimes when I meet the situation the only thing I can do is sleeping. When I get up later I always find that the light is on! And to you, my advice is you can talk with your families and your friends or you can go out to breath the fresh air!

hi there naxous,you are lucky enough to have generators at home.With us,we need to deal with power interruptions almost every day,3-4x a day (8 hrs in day) and we uses only all naturals means like paper fans so the kids won't feel hot...It doesn't matter to us adults but we all feel bad for the kids but no matter how complaints we do,nothing can be done as it's not only us but everyone...anyways now we're getting used to it ,& we manage to use it to bond with each other,like we sing with the kids in the dark & play shadow games.

We usually experience power outage here in my City. And i really hate it when we don't have electricity. It is really boring, and feels so hot without electricity. Electricity is my life. Without it, I just don't know what to do. Our city once experienced two days straight of power outage. It was like hell. Cellphones didn't have battery, television were off, it was so hot that I had difficulty sleeping and it was so dark. It felt like the end of the world. I hope I wouldn't be able suffer from that long days of power outage ever again.

Im the type of guy whose pretty much into using lots of electronic stuff. I can just imagine life will be so much more difficult if there wont be any electricity anymore. Or if theres going to be a problem about electicity. It will affect my job, my way of living and the way i do most of the things that i do. Yes i will survive but its going to be a very tough fight indeed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and question my friend

Im in the USA we do not have much of a problem with that. Only when there are storms. That happen a couple times this last winter. Imagine having no heat in the winter. The problems i have now are the house owner i rent from often doesnt pay the bills. Presently we have had no water for three days now. My rent is paid so it really irratates me. Ive been here awhile and many times its either the internet, electric or water. he collects rent from 3 and sometimes 4 different people and he works. So i do not know what his problem is. All i know is im tired of it and want to move now. I will be moving ina couple of months either to my camper or an apt. I just cant take this anymore.

when there's no electricity, we do the following acitivities: we go upstairs and inside the room we share stories, sing along together and just have good time being with the kids. i love brownouts...with my hubby it's kinda romantic my dear!

probably, i will buy a genset. i simply cannot drool over the lack of electricity. i have to do something about this important utility. i do have to take action. but if it just temporary, i sure will suffer through it, the inconvenience, i mean... for my computer to stay running, i'll probably buy a ups to keep going, if the power failure comes regularly... if it's persistent and goes long, i'll solve it with a genset...

Hi Naxous. Just like you we have our share of "brownouts" or power interruptions. It may occur at any time of the day or night for an average of 2 hours per day. Some causes may usually be justifiable like technical problems at the power plant, or demand exceeds the supply. Nonetheless, the discomfort and the inconvenience caused by these power interruptions is indeed a test to our patience and evidence to our dependence on electricity. But we are a resilient people and since this has become a common occurrence, we have learned to adapt and make do with what we have. We have our hands and a piece of cardboard to fan ourselves (LOL), and businessmen and rich people have generators to produce the electrical power for their needs. At first, one could swear to the heavens for such bothersome exercise most especially at night being disturbed and awaken from the heat. But in time you'll get used to it by having lots of patience, my friend. Remember it is not entirely the fault of the power company, not human error. It is the price we have to pay for progress, increase in population, hence increase demand or could be caused by environmental factors. Who knows.

there was no electricity in my house yesterday.I suffered it when i was visiting some web!So i was angry,but i had no ways to solve it . so i came out and went to visit my friend!

I am sorry to hear that, in my place our blackout usually happened on daytime. So when that happened. we are just staying in our pantry and talked for any topic. Then make fun until the light came back on.