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hi dear Ambie, we never had a power shortage so far at least no longer than a few minutes. When reading about them such as you just experienced, I always ask myself whats then happening to fridge and freezer contents.... we have lots of stuff in the freezer right now so it would create havoc if power was out and stuff gets to thaw and consequently rot. But I know pain problems. My back gives me hell sometimes too as I have a herniated disc. We have good medical chairs at the office but sometimes I really think cant that work day end sooner as I want to get home and get to bed.....so then I am impatient too.

We always have flashlights and candles because living in the country, when the lights go out at night, the darkness is very thick and sometimes it takes a while for the electric company to fix it. We always loss electricity at least 1-2 times a year due to high winds and storms, but the most it has been was only a few hours, with the exemption when we got hit by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, that was 4 days...:O Since we do have flashlights and candles, plus the fact that we like camping, so we have the equipment to do most anything without electric, it was kind of fun. . .At first..At least when we go camping, we can hike up to the showers, but after depleting the hot water from our water heater, we only got cold water and in Sept. though the weather was nice, it was not hot and taking a cold shower was not something I'd want to do. So, we heated up water for sponge baths, but my daughter and I have somewhat long hair, can't really sponge bath that. Fortunately before our hair got too gritty, it rained. Why was that good? Because we like camping, we had camping soap, good for a variety of cleaning, from dishes to body soap to shampoo. It was gentle and biodegradable and rinses out in cold water. So we go outside and stood under the gutter where a huge stream of water was coming down and we washed our hair..I know it sounds crazy, but hey, the temp outside was just warm enough that the rain felt good and we needed our hair washed..lol

I do not remember the last time we had power out for more than an hour or so, which was last week or two weeks ago. It was not too hot, and I have trees around my property so the house is shaded. I think another thing you could have done was maybe sit in a tub of cool water, but you know, when you have pain it is hard to think of anything except that pain. I find that I will be gritting my teeth and it will be because of some kind of minor pain, so I am not sure I can imagine how awful yours was. I guess it would not do any good to suggest you go to the library or a store that was cool, cause they probably would have had their power off as well. I am glad you had the presence of mind to go drive in your cool car for a while.

Girl! I'm so sorry I am coming late to this post! I'm glad you are safe! Suggestion, get big flashlights . They are better than candles. I hope you are feeling better. To answer your question, I think it was last year sometime we lost power for a few hours. But the one time I will always remember is Hurricane Irene. We lost our power for about a week. It was in September so it wasn't too hot.But I remember how dark the night was. And how hard it was to past the time without t.v. back then I wasn't online! So I'm just glad you got your lights sooner than a week! And I hope you are feeling better.

I'm SO happy to hear you have your electricity back! I can't remember if this was the same day that I was watching the Weather Channel and was watching a live shot of somewhere in Oklahoma, a HUGE counter-clockwise rotating cloud (they said it was at least a mile wide) trying to become a tornado. That was also the same day/night that we had severe storms roll through here, too, which is why I was glued to the Weather Channel. We were under a severe thunderstorm warning for hours and I was worried that we'd have a tornado warning here, too. Every time I see something live about Oklahoma's weather, I worry about you. I'm very happy to hear that you made it through your day without electricity. I know how miserable it can be, especially when you aren't feeling well. I've been through four days without electricity before so I know. Like you said you're going to do, I went out and bought more candles once we got our electricity back. I also placed one emergency candle in every room, along with a pack of matches. Who knows which room you'll be in when the power goes out, especially if it goes out at night? That's why I wanted to be prepared and not have to stumble around in the dark to find the candles and matches. I'm glad you're feeling better. This weather can wreak havoc on our poor bodies. My hips have been talking to me through the 3 or 4 rainy days we've had recently so I can imagine how you must've been feeling. In times like this, can you go to your parents' house and just lie down in a quiet bedroom? Or, is it too noisy in their house when they have a church service? I know I'd feel a lot better to hear that you were with your parents when you have a migraine since they get so bad, plus there were others there who could help with your mother if you had to go to the hospital.

in that case, I just try to go to sleep early...Sleeping is the best....

I absolutely hate not having electricity there is problems in this house with the electricity and we never know when it is about to go out. The longest I waited was 17 and a half hours for the electricity to come back on and I was bored out of my mind.

I do get impatient......after I sit around and read my magazines by candle light...or do everything I can to entertain myself without electricty...then I start getting impatient for the power to come back on....luckily I have a bunch of candles available for when that happens..it's been about six months since I have lost mine for any length of time...and that was because of a fire.. Lightening hit a house not so far from here and burned it down....the fire followed the wires and so we all lost our power.....I can stamp during those times though! LOL...

I am never really patient during power outages/interruption. But one power interruption I had I wished was longer. It was night time and my partner and I was preparing to go to sleep. We weren't really sleepy but thought that since there was nothing good on television, we'd just talk until we fall asleep. Before we could settle in the bed, the power was out. So he suggested that since it wasn't so hot (thank goodness) we'd just light a few candles. Then he started flipping songs on his iPhone and attached it to our battery-operated speaker (Altec Lansing) and then music filled the room. After flipping several songs and playing them, he suddenly said "let's dance". We were on our Pjs and we danced inside the room, lights out with candles around. It was the most romantic power interruption of my life! after a while, the power went back and I was hoping that it would have been a little bit longer. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

Oh that is awful! Your power was out for such a long time, and I'd probably go crazy! I feel so bad for you. That was some storm and I would have been pretty scared too. I'm not a very patient person when it comes to feeling ill, or being physically uncomfortable. I remember when I hurt my thigh and hip muscles and had to lay around for almost one month because the pain was so unbearable. Talk about being crabby! That was just horrible and I hated every minute of it but had no choice. As soon as I would stand up the pain shot through my legs within 30 seconds...just miserable. And I don't like to be waited on either. I'm glad you're safe and sound and hope you don't go through this again.

I did have that experience. It feels so annoying and frustrating to have black outs for a long period of time. The weather is hot and I hate sweating a lot. Plus, its dark and I can't do the things that I have to do due to inconvenience. I just sleep and try to forget it.

so sorry. maybe you could have just layed on your parents couch or sat/layed on the floor for the night to stay cool. i would see if i could scrape up enough for one of those lttle battery run fans or something for next time.

ouch!what state are u in?

I am impatient as well. if I could not talk at all my friends on all my sites I would freak out. Glad you can communicate with your internet friends again. I hate when the power goes out.

Been awhile happened in the old house last year power out 4 hours no tv no puter lolol redad by flashlight as I could seem to get sleepy and it wasnt hot for a change

The last time we got brown out was last Sunday but it only last for five hours and it is daytime. But I still remember last year when we are in flood all electricity was totally block. I have my candles, flashlights and matches. To keep from impatiently wait I work some things to make me busy. I clean my house when it is brown out. So after I finish it the lights will have on.

I wouldn't want to be alone at night in the darkness or in light even!! I'm not the one who is patient when I'm physically uncomfortable, It turns out to be anger!!! But when I'm in a situation like you,, I would pray to the Lord,like "please, please"