Without Electricity for a day

electric power has become a staple for a modern society, i've had a long power failure, precieved one of them is bored, going online, the battery runs out. want to watch football, but the tv screen is black, not black and white.. and to take a shower, i have to fetch water in conventional wells.. it is bad to live without electricity now..

The thought of no electricity for even a little bit of time is not fun. We have lost electricity due to storms or outages many times. It is so hot here that the constant demand to AC our homes causes temporary blackouts. Just night before last they came on the TV with an urgent plea to turn off everything not being used in the house. What some don't realize is that we need to unplug items when not in use. Such as the toaster, or even our cell phone chargers. If plugged in they still pull a small amount of wattage to sit there!

Thanks goodness we haven't received a letter like that. But for a while there, a couple of summers ago, we had rolling blackouts. It was never for long though. It's about 100 degrees out here already and no electricity would be very unpleasant.

Yes i did and it was for weeks. The first time was in the 1990s when a strong typhoon damaged almost all electricity posts and a big bridge. I remember extending my sem break to almost two months. The second one was about three years ago during a flood. It was a week we didn't have electricity and water supply. It sucks and I didn't wanna go back to those times again. I'm just lucky that my parents' house has a generator back up system to give us electricity. So we really didn't suffer much in the 1990s when there was no electricity for months. I think it was two months.

The moment I hear of power cut,I feel that I have a temperature from head to foot.Perhaps It is a conditioned reflex.It is very hot for us over here these days-over 30 degrees.We had a power failure for a day not long ago.We could neither turn on electric fan nor watch TV,so much for my surf Internet.We hardly stood the hot weather and had nothing to do then.

my home would become hell! i dont know how u may able to manage it! good luck though! sometimes people become sick because of lack of entertainment. go out for they day and somehow manage to pass the day :D

Yes I sure have! Last winter we had a really bad snow storm and it knocked out the electricity in a very large area that we went without electricity for almost a week! Hubby has a generator so we were holed up in the living room with a sheet on the wall to the hallway to keep the heat inside that one room and we were able to use certain things but not a whole lot or it would knock out the generator because it would be too much for it to handle. We watched tv, made dinner and even heated up some water to take baths with. It was an adventure but one I hope to never go through again.

Not in a really long time but I do remember at one time or another not receiving notice and the electricity going poof, due to area issues. Gosh we are so dependent on such basic needs as I panicked, thinking OMG what am I going to do. Years ago many made due and functioned well, but being that we have been raised and accustomed to having it, we somehow feel we can't function. I do hope the day they do turn it off for you that they get through the work quickly as I too would be missing it and needing it to come back quick. Plan your refrigerator items as no electricity will cause the frozen items to thaw.

Hi Pinklilly, The last time I experienced the power being out for a long period of time is a few winters ago. We had an ice storm and were without power and heat for 4 days and nights. It was the worst time of my life. I stayed in bed and kept layers of clothing and wore my winter coat to bed. I froze. My feet hurt so bad from cold injury. Never want that again. We live in another house with a fireplace and gas heaters. So we won't freeze now.