What to do when the power is out.

[SirDoom]

For those of you asking, I made this thread on my phone, of course. I've been able to keep it charged with my car charger. Yay Droid!

I probably have my old gameboy around here somewhere. Sadly, everything else that I have the runs on batteries is long gone. My books were mostly replaced with ebooks, my cheap battery powered cd player was discarded with the advent of itunes, and... well, that was a dumb move in retrospect.

Also, hanging out with friends? Not really an option. Few people are in town, and the whole area is under a dusk to dawn curfew (A libertarian's nightmare. How dare those fascist mayors...)

Vacating isn't much of an option either. This happened on the first day of my exams, which are pretty much going to resume the second power comes back on. Besides, I has no monies.

In all, I would just like to say- Damn you bad weather! Now where did I put all my double A batteries?

 

[Mr. Gency]

Dust off my Legos.

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

Light up a candle and read something. It is AWESOME to be reading by candlelight with a lightning storm outside.

Truth
also lighting up the fireplace and grilling cheese sandwiches is a good compliment to that.

smores.

 

[Dirzzit]

Light up a candle and read something. It is AWESOME to be reading by candlelight with a lightning storm outside.

^^ this all the way.

 

[subtlefuge]

Get a generator.

Maybe that's cheating?

More seriously, reading. I'll take any excuse I can get to have some uninterrupted reading time.

 

[GenericAmerican]

My house had no power for three months a few years back when Florida was hit by that monster string of hurricanes.

I just kind of sat around the house, or stood out in the rain getting knocked over by the wind gusts.

 

[limping beaver]

remember to flush

 

[devotedsniper]

Hmm either go for a drive, surf the web on my phone/play games on it,or curse the world and think about buying a UPS so i never have this problem again (our power cuts only generally last an hour or 2).

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

DS, PSP...

Then...I guess...Read?

 

[2fish]

Draw out 5 different pictures, tape them to the tv, then watch tv.

Be sure to get up to change the scene or even change channels as you normaly would.

Works for me should work for you.

 

[game-lover]

I'm likely to just read. That's it. All I got. Use candles and oil lamps for light.

Otherwise, I get the hell out of dodge and find a place where I can happily use electricity/

If there's no where to go and I have nothing to read, I tend to sleep.

 

[Lyx]

I would enjoy the candlelight

About the only thing i would probably start thinking about, is how to recharge my laptop in the absense of electric power. For everything else, i do not see much issues, unless we're talking more than a month without electricity.

 

[Klarinette]

Heh.. one of the last power failures were actually pretty funny. My brother kept coming up with all this stuff he could do, even something as trivial as making a poptart, and was disappointed to realize that pretty much everything required electricity.

Me, on the other hand, have a couple instruments I can play, and I knit. There's also coitus *shrug*.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

Read, play guitar, play my DS until it dies, stargaze, play my sister's DS until it dies, probably walk the 30 miles to my girlfriends house to sit and talk

 

[Vandy]

Spoiler

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmHsg_PPes[/link]

 

[nipsen]

yeah, no electricity suddenly shakes your habits doesn't it..

You need a notebook and a pencil. Problem solved. Were a week or two a few years ago with two long outages in a row. I'm not sure what I was looking for, but in a desperate search down in the bottom of some dusty boxes, I happened to find my leather-bound paper-stash. Bought it back in the long, long ago. Was a pencil there with it. Used it for drafting texts since.

 

[Thumper17]

Sleep.

Then more sleep.

You'd be surprised how long you can force yourself to sleep.

 

[Your Nightmare]

1. Lay in bed, then sleep.
2. play some videogames.
3. chill out with my friends.
4. go swimming.
5. eat mcdonalds.

You didn't really think about number 2 did you...?

Handhelds are a magical thing, my friend.

Batteries aren't a magical thing though I'm afraid