What do you do when the power goes out?

[Gregg2]

Batter safe then sorry. But why nit get home security

2x6 and chain were much cheaper, one time expenses.... security blankets for my better half.

Or move...?

Pfffft. It's a fine neighborhood. Stuff happens everywhere, or haven't you heard? It's a big city. If I move to a junky house in the inner city, no one would think about breaking in. The crooks go to the nicer neighborhoods 'cause they figure people will have stuff that's worth something on the street.

 

[samiwas]

The power in my neighborhood goes off at least twice a month for no apparent reason. Most of the time, it's just for a few minutes, but every now and then, it's for several hours or overnight.

No one has figured out why. We're only about a mile from the substation, but we are the only neighborhood to go out. Apparently, we just have a bad set of wires coming here.

When it does go out, we usually will watch a DVD on the laptop or something. If it's late, we will go to bed. If it's the middle of summer and stupidly hot, we will hit a hotel for the night.

 

[iJohnHenry]

No one has figured out why.

God knows, and has healed it.

It's a miracle.

 

[snberk103]

...
Pfffft. It's a fine neighborhood. Stuff happens everywhere, or haven't you heard? It's a big city. If I move to a junky house in the inner city, no one would think about breaking in. The crooks go to the nicer neighborhoods 'cause they figure people will have stuff that's worth something on the street.

Apparently in some places more than others. When we head out for the day I'm careful to lock the front door. Back doors, we don't care about. But the front door we lock so that people who come to the house don't accidentally let the cat out when they poke head inside to see if we're deaf, and that's why we didn't answer their knock. Crazy as it sounds, we lock the front door to keep the cat in.

But... we can have long power outages....

 

[Orange Furball]

Apparently in some places more than others. When we head out for the day I'm careful to lock the front door. Back doors, we don't care about. But the front door we lock so that people who come to the house don't accidentally let the cat out when they poke head inside to see if we're deaf, and that's why we didn't answer their knock. Crazy as it sounds, we lock the front door to keep the cat in.

But... we can have long power outages....

We lock the front door and the deck gate. That's it. The only reason is so that people don't take our electronics. And the deck is because my neighbors jump the fence and we don't want them swimming. Back door is sometimes locked and sometimes not. That's because only half of my family has keys, so when they need to get in they use the back door.

 

[notjustjay]

Post "The power just went out!" as my status on Facebook.

 

[Theclamshell]

Masturbate.

 

[snberk103]

Masturbate.

Neither funny nor original. That idea was arose on the 1st page.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Anybody ever had the power go out whilst their Mac was doing a back up? Did it cause any problems?
I'm switching soon but when the power goes out on a PC you just start with a screen asking you if you want to run in safe mode? Is a Mac the same?

 

[iJohnHenry]

That idea was arose on the 1st page.

Haa haa haa, you said "arose".

If someone would rub one out, perhaps I can arose too?

 

[Gaelic2]

I switch over to my generator. I live in the mountains!

 

[Orange Furball]

Anybody ever had the power go out whilst their Mac was doing a back up? Did it cause any problems?
I'm switching soon but when the power goes out on a PC you just start with a screen asking you if you want to run in safe mode? Is a Mac the same?

It should just resume as if its coming out of sleep. That's what happens when I take my battery out of my MacBook

 

[iJohnHenry]

Anybody ever had the power go out whilst their Mac was doing a back up? Did it cause any problems?

I'm switching soon but when the power goes out on a PC you just start with a screen asking you if you want to run in safe mode?

Is a Mac the same?

A PC, or a lap-top with an external back-up drive?

If you are using a UPS, you will have the time to either quit the back-up and do an orderly shut-down, or, battery-time permitting, let it continue until finished.

 

[R94N]

Where I am it doesn't happen often, and when it does it doesn't go off for long. But when it does I just go outside or something like that. I don't live on my computer all the time.

 

[wvuwhat]

If the power is out and it's not because of bad weather I go to the local driving range. If the weather is bad I pick up a book.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Take a nap. Because in Texas, living without air condition is a nightmare, no matter what time of year.

 

[Rychy]

Play a handheld gaming system. Haven't had the power go out for quite a while though, now I'd probably kill time on my iPad.

Edit: Apparently I need to specify "handheld gaming system" instead of just saying "handheld system" or someone might take it the wrong way.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Play a handheld system ...

Read back, you're hardly the first.

 

[Rychy]

Read back, you're hardly the first.

Well if you got your mind out of the gutter for a second, maybe you'd realize I was talking about a gaming system ... you know like a PSP or DS. And look at that I even mention I'm currently playing a PSP game in my signature.

 

[deannnnn]

I grew up in South Florida so we would occasionally have power outages during hurricanes. Most of the time the power didn't even go out at all, but when it did it was usually only for a day or two. Even during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 the power was only out for two days (or so I've heard, I was only two years old).

During Hurricane Wilma in 2005, however, the power was out at my house for 10 days. It was miserable. No air conditioning/internet/tv/anything. It was around Halloween time so my family and I spent the time carving pumpkins and stuff. Most of our city was back online within a couple days so we were able to go to public places with air conditioning but for some reason my neighborhood took 10 days. We were off school for two weeks though, so that was pretty cool!

 

[snberk103]

Funnily enough, our power was out this afternoon. So I cracked open a beer and sat on the back deck and read and listened to the wind rustling through the trees.

BC Hydro has "other" listed as the cause..... so informative.... Now I have a few clocks to reset..... sigh.

 

[mrsir2009]

Doesn't go out often where I live, but when it does it's at night because of the wind bringing down powerlines and shorting things out... The annoying this is that it doesn't just go off straight away, it goes on off on off on off on off on off for about 10 mins, before it finally goes off then doesn't come back on again.

I watch movies/tv shows on my MBP and have a drink, then when the MBP dies I read by my solar shed light