Worst Power Outage
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Topic: Worst Power Outage
Posted By: Sinusoid
Subject: Worst Power Outage
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 10:04
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We've all experienced it; right when we least want it to, ZAP!!! The electricity goes out. What's the longest time frame you've had without electricity/power? I once had the power off for four days right after a winter storm. I should feel lucky though, since some people had it out for two weeks. |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 10:48
About 1 second. The worst effect was that I had to re-enter the date & time of my microwave oven.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:01
Some hurricane (forget the name) came up through Washington DC a couple years back - we were without power for maybe three days. Luckily it was over a weekend, so on day 2 (Saturday) I had finally had it and we made a road trip to Pennsylvania to see my wife's family. Pathetic but I just can't live without electricity! 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:19
What an ordeal! How did you ever cope?  Here in Georgia the worst ones come when we get hit with an ice storm. Regular storms occasionally knock it out here and there. The last ice storm was a few years ago and I was home with the woman who became my wife.  Fortunately we have a gas stove, gas wall heaters, and a fireplace in the bedroom. I don't actually remember how many days that lasted. Not too long. I remember a big one in the '70's growing up. Was almost a week, I think.------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:20
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I think the worst that I can remember going through was the blackout from 3 or 4 years ago that took out power on most of the eastern coast and midwest. I want to say that we were without power for two or three days, but it was the dog days of summer and that meant no air conditioning too. Worst part number 1 was being stuck on the 11th floor at work and having to go down 11 flights of stairs in the dark. Even worse part number 2, was taking over two hours to drive the 5 miles to get home, and really, really needing to use the bathroom about an hour into the drive. I was about ready to abandon the car and walk the remaining couple of miles to get home. ------------- 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:22
I believe that there was study regarding the "baby boom" that occurs every nine months after a blackout.  -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:30
I don't know about you, but I don't use electrical birth control. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 11:35
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I think that the "electrical birth control" is called the TV, the stereo, and all other electrical appliances that distract each other's attention from each other.
Besides, don't the other "electrical birth control" devices run on batteries???  -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:10
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Well of course, I'm old enough to remember the British miners' strikes at the beginning of the 1970s; country on a three day working week to conserve fuel, frequent power cuts, industry grinding to a halt...
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:17
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Don't forget the postal strike too and the terrible winter of 1973 when most of the UK was under snow.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:33
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^Ah, those were the days Jim, (that was the root cause of the demise of the Golden Era of Prog if you ask me, bloody Ted Heath and his gang of pre-war throwbacks). I was an apprentice at the time, so I still had to turn up for work even when we had no power. Spent most of the day sitting in the canteen and losing badly at cards before being sent home again. I've still got my petrol ration books somewhere.
Now we have selective power outs, where one phase blows knocking out every third house in the street so your neighbours can taunt you with the smell of cooking and the muffled sound of their Hi-Fi/TV - or the really galling one - flood-lighting their bloody drive and garden while you cower around a single candle for warmth and light - or my neighbour opposite bringing cups of steaming coffee to the Alec¹ working on the sub-station at the bottom of her drive.
 The SEB have it timed to perfection, if the power is out for more than 4 hours you can claim compensation, so far this year (in a series of one every night for over a week) the longest has been 3h 55m
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:46
| The worst blackout I remember occurred in the night between Sept 27 and 28, 2003 , and involved all of Italy - when, if I remember well, a tree fell on some power lines in Switzerland, and left the whole country without power for around 24 hours (somewhere more, somewhere less). The thing is, in Rome people were enjoying the so-called "White Night", with shops, restaurants, art galleries and such remaining open until the wee hours of the morning - so there were thousands of people left stranded in the dark, who could not return home. I, not being a night owl, was safely sleeping at home when disaster struck.. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:52
^ you slept for 24 hrs  ------------- What? |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 12:57
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One time, my parents were throwing a party. It started at six o'clock and the power went out at about 5:45. WE had to finish all of the cooking and entertain guests with all lights out. We had also moved recently and people didn't know where we were living, and now there were no lights to show the house number or anything. It was quite the ordeal.
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 00:10
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We lived under a dictatorship. That means electricity gone almost every night because of bombing. I think it was the only way the people was able to protest in peace. I was just a kid when the "cacerolazos" (nearest translation would be"saucepanery") happened. Someone bombed some local power plant, the light was off and everybody started beating with their saucepans. Weird, but memorable. As much as the afternon when we were visiting my father's familiy and there was a strugle between the oposition and the police. My dad carried me on his shoulders and start running while people right next to us was beaten badly by the police forces. I remember a guy vomiting because of those lacrimogen bombs, and entering a food store owned by one of my dad's friends . Then, a long wait with the iron door down before it was safe for us to go outside. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 13:56
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I think a few minutes or so
 The Electricity problems that ALOT of households suffer from after the now common January/February storms(Delayed Autumn Storms THANKS TO GLOBAL WARMING) Never does me a thing.
That's because our cables and stuff are underground, and not above (So Trees can fall on them and stuff).
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 14:00
| lol .... my max was 3 or 4 hs not more... wow gees 4 days?! |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 14:51
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I went through the worst one yet personally just two weeks ago: the power went off early in the morning, and didn't come back on until two days later. I nearly froze to death from the cold, because not only was the heat off, but the house doesn't have very good insulation.
But then again, I'm still young yet, so this is but a taste of the horrors that will come ultimately, I fear.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 15:54
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Nah I have lucked out. Most I ever had was for a few minutes. Seriously, anyone remember that huge power outage that hit like 1/3 of the US? My lights flickered.....thats it. I didn't know about the outage until I saw the news. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 16:19
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we had in NC several years ago... after an ice storm....think if was '03. Out for 14 days... looked like someone capped an air burst over Raleigh and Durham. Trees down everywhere.. houses split in two. Damnest thing I ever saw. Lost two trees in my yard... easily 80 ft high each... thankfully they fell away from the house... but fell onto, and took down the transmission lines.
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 20:48
Actually during a windstorm a few years back and my house didn't get power back for a full 8 days. School started back up by that point, so I had to shower in the dark every morning for a few days. It became a much more difficult task to get my hair looking good in the mornings  |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 20:57
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Just had one like 2 minutes ago. Friggin' hail/sleet/whatever this is.
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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: March 06 2008 at 03:15
Very funny. I live in rural Gloucestershire and regularly get brief outages. As you say the main inconvenience is having to reset all the electronic guff that we seem to acquire.
The last long term outages that I remember were in the early 70s when we had coal strikes and powere station shut downs. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 06 2008 at 04:02
| When Katrina hit us, my power was out for two weeks and I live in the suburbs of a fairly big city. People out on in the sticks had power off for a fair amount longer. |