Power Outages

[Imperator161]

I try to avoid doing anything that uses up too much battery power (phone, game systems, etc.). During the day, I'll read or try to get whatever work I can done, while I'll usually chat with family and go to bed early at night if there is no power. I also usually spend a lot of time calling the power company on the landline phone (if it's working) for restoration updates. I grew up on well water, so power outages also mean no water supply (so no functioning sinks, showers, flushable toilets, etc.), so that limited what I could do as well.

My parents have spent the better part of the past week without power, and they faced a bunch of one to two week outages while I was in college, but it's been a while since I've been around for a sustained power outage. The last one I spent extensive time at home for (five days without power) was in 2010, when Pokemon HGSS came out. I remember really wanting to play that game, but not wanting to do so for long out of fear that my DS would run out of battery power and I would be unable to play it for the rest of the outage.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Well, I have a UPS that my electronics run on, which beeps whenever there's a brownout. Blackouts it can handle too, but I'd have to be there when it happens to gracefully shut things down.

When I was a kid it usually involved our Nintendo DSes, and little else since half the time it was at night.

 

[mishy.]

When Hurricane Irma knocked out our power we stayed at my Mom's house until it came back. Ended up having to replace the fridge because of it.

Normally though I either sleep, play on my 3ds or phone, or go out and do something until the power comes on.

 

[Ice1]

If the power goes out on me, I'm going to move to another place. I'm above inconveniences like that.