32 hours without power

I glad everything is all right and you got your power back on. The longest that I have been without power was all most two weeks. This was in 1989, when hurricane Hugo came through. We had two freezers and a fridge. We lost everything in one of the freezers and the fridge. We were able to save items in one freezer by not opening the door(the freezer had build up ice in it) until we could borrow a generator. We also borrowed an outdoor cooker. In order to cook or to bathe we had to take buckets and fill them up in town, because we had a electric water pump. The men in the family would go to the river to take a bath. The electric company told us the reason it took so long for us to get power is because we lived on a dirt road and they were working on the power lines on the main roads first.

That is a really long time to go without power. Like you mentioned there are people who really need that power. It would make a person have to go buy a generator in order to survive. The longest I can recall going without power is for a few hours. And that seemed like an eternity. I couldn't imagine going for 32 hours. It's amazing the things we get use too.

I am very blessed to have not been without power more than an hour or two since I have been out on my own. That is over forty years, basically.

About three days, and I was fine. It honestly doesn't bother me not having power because I can entertain myself with reading or just deep thinking. I'd be tempted to open the fridge though, that'd be the only thing.

I'm glad to hear you got the power back on. It's such an inconvenience. We had a hurricane come through here once that knocked out our electricity (the entire neighborhood) for four days once years ago. While my sons (teenagers) were moaning and groaning, I decided to simply make the most of it. I bought extra charcoal for the grill and started barbequing most meals, bought a gas-powered portable stovetop (made for camping) and used that for cooking, went to the library every day to use their computers/internet and did a lot of reading and craftwork that doesn't take electricity. I kept a larger cooler half filled with ice to keep some foods cold and I thought it was pretty easy. Of course, I didn't have to get up and go to work every morning. I think that would have been much harder to deal with since there was no hot water or lights to see to get dressed; I had only candle light to see by. I had tried to find a generator to buy but they were completely sold out. After this ended and we got our electricity back, I started collecting things that do not need electricity like battery powered radio, tv, fans, more candles and flashlights to keep in each room because you never know where you'll be when the electricity goes out. It's no fun but it can be dealt with. I just thought of it like I was on a camping trip. It was no harder than that to deal with... easier, actually, since I still had a roof over my head and a cozy bed to sleep in at night.

Well, we were out of power here in the Philippines for three or four days when that dreadful typhoon Ondoy came here in 2009. Although, electricity during that time was of the smallest concern. Ondoy flooded almost half the country. It was my daughter's birthday, and it was really scary. We live on elevated land, so we didn't have much to worry about except celebrate my daughter's first birthday in the dark. But the entire first floor of my parents house was flooded, and they had to stay on the second floor for two days until the water subsided. I was even arguing with my husband that I needed to go to work on the eve of my daughter's birthday because the office would certainly be needing our help. That was pretty crazy. But it was a good thing I decided not to leave because people were actually caught in the undertow where the flood waters were deep, and drowning. I just thank God that it wasn't the year I gave birth. I wouldn't know what I would have done if I had to give birth at 2 in the morning with no electricity, and even worse, with everything underwater. But like I always say, I'd rather go without electricity than without running water. I could stand the dark, but no running water would be worse.

Sounds like the big blackout in 2003 that parilyzed the power grid in eastern North America for about three days.

FIFTEEN Days! It's true....our town didn't have power for 15 straight days. This happened on Sept26 - Oct.12, 2009, after one of the catastrophic storm named ONDOY. Our town was completely submerged in flood water as high as 20 feet. Power facilities were damaged by the flood, it took 15 days for the electric company to fix everything. It was really difficult, we all need to be home before dark. We have to go to nearby town to charge our phones, emergency lights and electric fans. We also need to go to market everyday to buy food since we do not have fridge.

SOunds like you were pretty prepared for an outage. I recall back about a dozen years with the big generator in our area went out and that made all the electricity in the area go out. It happened about 11p. and it took awhile for the power company to come out. Then there lights put up and noise right out in the alley for about nine or ten hours and then we had power again. I think that was the longest I have ever gone without power that i can remember.

that will be really annoying at the end of the day and it will make us feel so sick and pathetic for sure

Here the people in my home town are blessed with improper power supply at all the time. So most of them own generators or investors at their home. So i don't get much worried about electricty . The problem arises only when the investors are out of charge.

3 days; it was about a couple of years ago due to a big storms and hails. Many trees were down and cutting power of tens of thousands of households. But for each household affected, the power company reimbursed $80 for the power outage.