Power Cut ^_^

[matchbow]

The Blackout a couple summers ago. Wasn't such a big deal besides it shut off right in the middle of my game
*shakes fist* and the fact that it HAD to be hot! I remember it was 2 am, we couldn't sleep becasue it was so hot and then BAM! power went back on. Yay for AC.

Another time was an ice storm in 98 I think. My dad had to go up to Watertown to help out with teh phone lines, so we stayed with my aunt who lived there and only sections of their town had electricity. The army brought up this HUGE generator to atelast keep the street lights on. Power was out for them for...around a month or so. But thats northern NY, EVERYONE has generators, so it wasn't so bad.

I live in Toronto normally but at the time of the super summer blackout, i was in Edmonton and i missed it. i don't know if that was good or bad.
The storm of 98 didn't cut our power, thankfully. I remember that was the only time school was ever cancelled because of the weather.
I've been in some short blackouts when i lived in an apartment but nothing really major

[Pokemon Kid]

um... yep, I've been in two, one from a snowstorm in '96 or '98 or something like that, we went a whole monthn without power, in the winter, in Canada.

We also lost power in that really big blackout that happened in the summer, it lasted a really long time. Like 6 hours, or even longer. I think everyone on the East Coast of the U.S and Canada should remember that.

Reading that made me cry.

That was really scary, we had no power OR WATER for 2 days.

We lived off chips and pop.

[Morningstar]

When I was a kid (in the dark ages) the power went off a lot. Not for days or anything like that. But several times a year for a few hours. Though once when we had a blizzard in 1979, the power was off for a few days.

But, we were always prepared. Canned food, a can opener, candles, and matches. And, we always kept extra water in jugs just in case. And an emergency plan if the power was off for more than a day (going to a relative's or friend's house to sit it out).

However, as I have gotten older, I have gotten really used to the power being on 24/7 without fail. And, I honestly don't know what I would do if the power went off for more than 24 hours.

We have gotten so used to certain amenities in our life that it is hard to imagine life without them. But, it could easily happen. I remember on the morning of 9/11, I was running around the supermarket buying food and bottled water and such, thinking what if they cut off our water or electricity. How would we survive? We live in Chicago and were quite afraid that our city would next be targeted. Talk about being unprepared for a disaster.

I honestly hate to say it, but some of us (myself included) are used to life being "cushy" and would have an extremely hard time if certain things, like power, were stopped for awhile. Yet, our ancestors didn't have it. And, they survived.

Sorry, if I am being too much of a philosopher. Just that every so often the stuff that Mother Nature doles out really makes me think.

[Cassi]

I remember when we had a power cut at dancing once. That was amusing. The music went off, it went pitch black and we all had to sit in the corridor whilst the dance teachers husband went next door to the police station to fetch torches. The dance teachers passed around jelly sweets. So much fun!

We've had a few at dance.

There's a favourite story about one of them. When we're practicing for the recital, if you have a dance that finishes on stage, you hold your position until Miss Margaret says "blackout" and then get off as fast as you can. One time Sara, one of the dancers that just everyone knows of, when she was younger, got tired of waiting, and said blackout herself.

The power went out in the whole town.

More often, though, we had blackouts because it was an old building and the electric couldn't always keep up with music and air conditioners on all three floors, something would end up tripping something, putting us all in the dark. We'd just count out the music, usually, and keep dancing, as long as it wasn't too dark. (I was all for singing it, as we all knew the words, but Quenby didn't quite go for it. )

[Igg]

We get tons of power cuts. We had a random one a few weeks ago. United Utilities are crap.

We used to get them every christmas, but that stopped a couple of years ago. Instead we just get annual floods and gales, and the power goes out then

[zorg]

Western power is pretty bad like that, we are the only country in the world to have had powerline top fires >.<

Never heard of it anywhere else, but thats their excuse.

[Rachel]

what's a powerline top fire?

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

We had a powercut on Christmas Eve a few years back. The whole town and surrounding town's electric went out and everything was plunged into darkness. Lasted about two hours.

And about four years ago we had another powercut on Christmas Eve but that was just our house. It lasted all day but we got it back on just as night was about to fall.

Round here where I live the electricity isn't much good. We often get flickers, sometimes the power goes out for a few minutes and stuff like that.

[Lillie]

Probably heard of this one, but we had one in Thailand during CAS week

It's just one of those things I'll never forget ...

[_jaye_]

Probably heard of this one, but we had one in Thailand during CAS week

It's just one of those things I'll never forget ...

You were screaming 'cause you didn't know what Sarah and I were panicking about XDD

I miss the good ol' Thailand days

[spacecase33]

um... yep, I've been in two, one from a snowstorm in '96 or '98 or something like that, we went a whole monthn without power, in the winter, in Canada.

We also lost power in that really big blackout that happened in the summer, it lasted a really long time. Like 6 hours, or even longer. I think everyone on the East Coast of the U.S and Canada should remember that.

I definitely remember that big blacout in the summer of 2003. Thankfully, Philly was too far south to get hit by it, but we were all transfixed by the news reports. I remeber pictures of crowds of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York- bizarre stuff.