Are you prepared?

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

What? It would only be a power outage for 2 days, I've been through that and worse before.

 

[sniddy_v1legacy]

I have books and candles - and a wife ;-)

I'll surivie - be a bit peeved with the freezer

 

[Codeman90]

I would finally catch up on all that reading I've been meaning to do. Also I'd do a whole lot fishing, sounds alright to me.

 

[thylasos]

In terms of what? Owning some books, some candles, and a gas stove?

I've got those.

 

[thiosk]

I would DIE without electricity for a long period of time.

I live in an apartment, and am entirely unprepared.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

Would you be prepared if there were a massive power outage and the power wouldn't be able to come back on for at least a day or two?
I ask this after what happened in my county, San Diego county, where we lost power at 4 pm yesterday and it didn't come back on until 12 this morning. I was surprised at how many people that I knew who weren't prepared for this outage.

Alot of people could answer your question where I live. Hurricane Irene ravaged our power here in North Carolina. I was fortunate and got it back that night, but my mom and dad didnt get power back for upwards of four or five days.

 

[Jodah]

Been there done that. Its annoying sure but I survived.

 

[kommando367]

That has happened before and I like darkness anyway. So no, not really a problem.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

That doesn't sound too brutal to be honest. I had to put up with no power for three days when some dunce knocked over the power pole outside my house. But then again I get my water from a well, so I was able to shower and use my water.

 

[Roxas1359]

Would you be prepared if there were a massive power outage and the power wouldn't be able to come back on for at least a day or two?
I ask this after what happened in my county, San Diego county, where we lost power at 4 pm yesterday and it didn't come back on until 12 this morning. I was surprised at how many people that I knew who weren't prepared for this outage.

Alot of people could answer your question where I live. Hurricane Irene ravaged our power here in North Carolina. I was fortunate and got it back that night, but my mom and dad didnt get power back for upwards of four or five days.

Yeah I've heard of the destruction that caused. What also sucks is that a Texas grid apparently went offline and they really need the power because of the many different wildfires there right now.

 

[Sonicron]

Eh, kind of inconvenient, seeing how my stove runs on electricity, but nothing I couldn't handle for a day or two. I'd miss listening to music during the day, but I certainly have enough reading material here to keep me entertained for weeks.
I guess the worst that could happen would be the food in the fridge going bad.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Living in western PA? where we get floods and bad T stroms often? uh... yeah.

Plus, a lot of my family is either current or former military, so i get the lesson all the time that you have to be prepared. So I'm ready for a 3 month stand against mad max to defend the homestead if it came down to it.

 

[Catie Caraco]

Yes, I've dealt with it by keeping candles with matches/lighters, flashlight radio thing with batteries, and a fully charged gameboy of whatever is the current generation nearby. This worked fine with the summer of 2003 power outage that affected a huge chunk of the east coast all the way into Canada. My house itself only lost power from about 2 pm until 11 pm, so it wasn't that bad, but my uncle was moving from Canada into America, having finally wrangled the legal system, and had to move all his shit down 4 flights of stairs with no elevator, air conditioner, or light.

What honestly bothers me more is having the electricity on and fine and the internet shitting the bed for no apparent reason. That's when I feel robbed.

Um theress usually quite an obvious reason why internets slow down, because other people are using it (not just in your house, we are talking the physical cable bandwidth gets too much use).

That or your provider caps usage at certain times, but mines good s i dont get that


ANYWAY
OT i would be fine, id just do sports or whatever, maybe walk, do some drinking and see my mates, no skin off my back.

generally it's been because of two reasons:

1) The place I got it from in college gave us a broken modem and blamed it on the wireless router, the jerks. Took them several weeks to get around to replacing it, at which point it worked fine.

2) We give internet to the dip-shits next door because their the children of my boyfriend's step father, and they use bit-torrent, slowing everything down. We do this via wire out of the window. Classy. His step-family sucks.

Those two reasons I can kind of accept, but when neither of those are happening, that's when I get seriously annoyed. And want to punch babies in the face. Good thing there are no babies around.

 

[Harveypot]

I'd probably be fine, but my lizard wouldn't be happy. He needs a heat lamp and would probably get cold in a power outage because he's from Australia and I live in England.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Try enduring a week long power outage.

I had to live off of saltines and tap water. I also had to READ.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I went through nearly a month without power when Katrina rolled through Mississippi 6 years ago, so 1 or 2 days would be pretty easy to deal with.

 

[Clobbertron]

I had a week long power outage a couple years ago. It really isn't that bad. Water and gas still run so food isn't a problem all you need is candles for light at night.
Also over the summer I lived on an island without running water or electricity for two weeks. It wasn't at all difficult to cope.

 

[MuppeTeN]

Hahahaha 1 day.

With the earthquake last year ( March 2010, Chile) I was left without power for over a WEEK, so 1 day is nothing.

 

[Brandon237]

I live in a third world country... some of you people sound so silly! I could survive, I would NOT enjoy it, but eh, not the end of the world. And people don't riot because they don't have power, they do so because the government ain't fixing their power.

no they riot because they think they can get away with it. Which if there was no power they might, unlike the uk riots where there are cameras EVERYWHERE so those tards went down

Human nature is a fairly predictable thing tbh.

Nah, most of the riots we have had here have been fully justified recently. When it is the taxis or our youth league, then no. But when the normal people here riot, it is because service delivery is so bad and government so negligent that it is not even funny. People often get shot in riots here, so they tend to do it less without good reason.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Well, wait until it's light, and read. Not much else to it. Oh, and start eating stuff out of the fridge like there's no tomorrow.