Longest You've Gone Without Power

Started by Virtual Chatot September 16th, 2008 3:57 AM
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Thought this would be appropriate because Hurricane Ike wiped out my power for three days, and I just got the internet running again.

What's the longest you've been without power? For me, it was a the three days I just experienced.
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There was a stretch we lost it on and off for 3 days. Very pain in the ass. On and off on and off. PA Winters suck.

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Ireland doesn't have too many experiences with the deadly force that is Mother Nature but sometimes the electricity blacks out if too much is being used. The longest we've gone without power is probably two or three hours thanks to overuse of it.

At least, I think that's the explanation. It was three in the morning and my father was too tired to explain the reason in detail.

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I'm pretty lucky. The only time I lost power for an extended period of time was the blackout of... '06, was it? I honestly forget, haha. But it was that time when the power went out along a lot of the east coast of the US & Canada. :[ We were amongst the first area in Toronto to get power back, though, and it was only out for 5 or 6 hours.


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I think the longest I gone without power is about three hours or more. Because one time, some stupid person hit a power line poll were I live. It cause a whole blackout for the whole apartment complex. I was up around 11pm or so. I went outside and seen that everyone was in the dark. So I stayed up around 2am, and went to bed. Because what was the point. It wasn't going to come back for awhile. So the next day it was back on.

Usually it will be only a few minutes and it is back on.

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On purpose or by storm?
(I've been without electricity for about 2 weeks once, on purpose)
from a storm I'd say the longest was probably when I was little the power went out for about a day and a half.
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About a week. One time in Virginia we had a severe ice storm, knocked out the power quickly and with all the damage power crews didn't come for a long time. It was fun at first... candles, fire place and laughs. After the second day without it it was hell. I couldn't sleep, felt like an ice cube. ;/ Thanks I had my GameBoy Color and batteries. I remember evolving my first Magikarp. XD!
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Mine was during the blackout. We didn't have power for 3 days. It first day was fun because I would just ride bikes around with my friends. We rode to Dairy queen and they were giving out free ice cream cakes because they were melting cause the fridges didn't have power. Sleeping sucked because it was summer and was so hot. Thank goodness I had Pokemon and my game boy to keep me occupied.

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2 days due to a blizzard when I was little--that blizzard ultimately got us out of school for about three weeks.
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I used to live in the Dominican Republic, where blackouts happen on a daily if not an inter-daily basis.
I remember there being a blackout for about two weeks once. I think it had something to do with an overload or malfunction or something. It was torture since my house there is concrete and heavily dependent on electronics we had bought here as opposed to the usual tiny wooden houses, and this was in the CITY. We cracked about 5 days in when our generator ran out of juice from being used continuously and had to bunk with my aunt in another city. This was sometime in '02 or '03.
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The longest I have been without power by choice was when I go to summer camp for a week. However the longest power outage I had was back in 1999 due to Tropical Storm Floyd passing close by. I was without power for about twenty-four hours, longer then the power outage caused by the 2003 Northeast Blackout.
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When hurricane Isabel hit us. Our power was out for eight whole days. -_- I remembered having to go to a Motel because we were so sick of not having power. With Tropical Storm Hanna we were lucky. It never went out on us actually. They only flickered once or twice. Then again, we got a really bad storm one night and our lights were out for two days.

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I'm pretty lucky. The only time I lost power for an extended period of time was the blackout of... '06, was it? I honestly forget, haha. But it was that time when the power went out along a lot of the east coast of the US & Canada. :[ We were amongst the first area in Toronto to get power back, though, and it was only out for 5 or 6 hours.
I remember that blackout well. D: That's also my reason for the longest time I've gone without power, only we were out for 24 hours.

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I remember that blackout well. D: That's also my reason for the longest time I've gone without power, only we were out for 24 hours.
I think I went through that too. They got the power back to Manhattan fast, but it was a different story for Brooklyn...


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Probably no longer than a few hours. I remember one night when it went out about 2 times. It once out once, then it come back on not much longer. So I went back to what I was doing and it went out again! It did eventually come back though. Then there was a time recently when the power went out and I was home alone. I listened to Tom Petty (using a laptop with a battery) until the ceiling fan starting spinning again.

The only bad thing not having any power is no phone (not counting cellphones). I have digital phone which means the phone is connected to the Internet. If I lose power and Internet - no phone. Good thing I got a cellphone. :)

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Posted December 15th, 2011
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A week here...and I set the record a few hours ago.

LIKE VIRTUAL CHATOT, I was caught in that recent Hurricane, and since I'm surrounded by trees they go "LOL NO POWER FOR 2 WEEKS" though luckily we got it back within exactly 7 days. Oh well = =