What would you do if there is no power supply?
By Lee Ka
@kaka135 (14931)
Malaysia
March 16, 2016 5:36am CST
This morning, there was no power supply in my home. We didn't get any notice about this, when I was working with my computer, suddenly the power was just cut off.
Since I couldn't use my computer anymore, I spent almost 3 hours with power off to clean and organize my home. It seems like a good chance to clean up without any distraction. I also spent some time to crochet the Easter crafts for my children.
If there is no power supply, what would you do?
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Mar 16
I think the life will be boring for us if there is no power. Actually I am not sure whether the lift can work properly if there is no power. Perhaps there is the backup power, but it can not run for a long time as usual usage. Perhaps we will go out since there is nothing interesting to do. It is dark and even I can't clean my house yet.
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
23 Mar 16
We usually do not take the lift here if there's no electricity. I am not sure how it is when someone is staying in very high level apartment. Perhaps as you said, there's backup power.
It was morning and afternoon time when the power here went off, so I was still able to do a lot of things without the electricity.
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
23 Mar 16
If it's at night, I guess I'd light up candle and sit in the front yard together with my children. We did that last time when there was no electricity at night too, at least there was wind blowing, so we wouldn't feel that hot and stuffy inside the house. The children were happy look at the candle light as well.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
16 Mar 16
In Florida, it hardly ever happens and never for three hours except the time the car hit the pole down the street and it tore out all the wires, but it was late at night and by morning it was fixed. My TV might go out due to bad weather for a few minutes or once lightening took out my phone service for a few days (fortunately it was a land line and my cell phone worked fine). But I would take that time to go check on my mom. She lives around the corner and if my power is out, hers is probably out too.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
24 Mar 16
@kaka135 That is certainly the plus side of living within walking distance!
@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
19 Mar 16
There is a lot we can do without electricity, especially if we have daylight, crafts like knitting etc and reading and cleaning our home and organizing closets etc...If we can read in candle light, we can catch up.. Many have loaded things on the IPad or the phone that we can listen or read..
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Mar 16
It has happened twice this year and I found other things to do and ways of eating and keeping warm. I went to bed earlier and did a lot of reading. Once we had a real bad storm and I was out of power for about a week in January cold weather. I survived but it was very hard too stay warm. When the power came back, the first thing I did was eat something warm.
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
23 Mar 16
Out of power for a week? That's really terrible. Here, we just always feel it's hot whenever there's no electricity, we just use paper fan or go out for some natural wind. I guess it's even harder to stay warm. Yes, I think eating might help.
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@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
16 Mar 16
we call it brownout my friend @kaka135 and first thing I would do is open up a candle, using my flash lights and check if we still have water in the buckets.. not sure about reading a book, maybe in the morning or afternoon. but at night we just lay down and sleep hoping the lights would come back..
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
16 Mar 16
There is always some to do if/when the power goes out. Ours hasn't been off for a long time so not sure what I did.
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@RRoyy2 (124)
• New Delhi, India
17 Mar 16
I would prefer reading a book or might even organize and clean a few things like you did @kaka135 (9569)
But I wonder several ages back when there was no electricity at all, how things would have been ! ! Living in the 21at century its difficult for us to imagine I wish I could travel back to that time
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
23 Mar 16
I always wonder that as well. My son and I were talking, back in those days, people might sleep early, perhaps just after the sun set. If we are hot, we use paper fan to fan ourselves or just go outside to feel the wind blowing. They seized the day time to do whatever they can.
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@rina110383 (24492)
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16 Mar 16
I'll read, clean my room and do some manual laundry until I get tired then I'll rest. I hope by time I'll wake up, power has been restored.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
16 Mar 16
I still do my online activities for I am using my iPad mini and iPhone especially in interacting with myLot community.
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