The Power Went Out
By popciclecold
@popciclecold (38637)
United States
August 3, 2024 1:01pm CST
I was sitting here, and all of a sudden the power went out. At first I didn't pay it much attention, I looked at the clock, and it was totally black, then I noticed the air was blowing. What time to lose power. It is so hot. I called a neighbor, she had lights. I called another neighbor who lives closer to me, and she didn't have any either. It was dark for it to be in the daytime. I can only imagine if it was at night. I had a little fan I bought from Amazon it had a light and a fan on it. That's a helpless feeling. After awhile we heard the light people come up our road. In a while they came back on. Sure ruined my day. I'm just happy to be cooling off.
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@kaylachan (69370)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Aug
I've had that happen before. One place we lived we'd lose power if the wind blew wrong.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
3 Aug
That sounds awful. I don't what happened here. It was hot and sunny, no wind.
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@kaylachan (69370)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Aug
@popciclecold We once lost power for a couple days because some idiot drove their car into a power pole.
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@LindaOHio (178131)
• United States
4 Aug
We now have a standby generator so that doesn't happen. I'm sorry you lost power for a while. Have a good day.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
4 Aug
I need to think about getting one. Thank you.
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@marguicha (222855)
• Chile
3 Aug
We just had a wind storm (the worst in my life) and we were out of energy for over 24 hours. It is awful. Disconnect everything. When the energy comes again it can destroy your appliances.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
3 Aug
I'm so sorry to hear that. That's a long time to be without power.
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@marguicha (222855)
• Chile
3 Aug
@popciclecold One of Dixie´s daughters had to seek help at Dixie´s house as her neighbor´s roof fell on her house and left her with no electricity nor water.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
3 Aug
I don't know, but we are in overcast now. Really getting cloudy.
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@Rimps85 (1845)
• India
4 Aug
@popciclecold that's too long...must be some issue with the transformer
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
4 Aug
I was too. It was a terrible two hours.
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@grenery8 (10284)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
7 Aug
@popciclecold i bet. Not cool at all.
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@RebeccasFarm (89854)
• Arvada, Colorado
5 Aug
It is so scary when that power goes out.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
4 Aug
We have knoe idea. The light man came up here, checking lines I suppose.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
4 Aug
Yeah, it was really hot, and uncomfortable.
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Aug
Glad you got your power back, We've been lucky and the power mostly stays on,
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
4 Aug
Yeah, a bad thing to lose when it's so hot.
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@angelitovillegas (1342)
• Angeles City, Philippines
3 Aug
Just like here in the Philippines if the power went out its was really terribly hot here.
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@popciclecold (38637)
• United States
3 Aug
I can imagine, the whole time it was out here, it was miserable.
@dgobucks226 (35574)
•
6 Aug
Yes, the price of so many people using air conditioners to cool us off. I had that happen to me recently and just finished some yardwork. Ugh!
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