@phendrick
We actually had an eight hour outage just last week, which may be the longest I’ve experienced. That would have changed my answer, except that I put “a day” both times.
I gave a diff response when this q was asked earlier because was thinking of US experiences. The other non-US experience suddenly “re-reminded” itself to me.
This whole thread feels like the same answers as before…
I’ve been lucky, when the power’s gone out for a few days. Fridge and freezer weren’t too full, had nearby areas with power to get food from, was cold out but not very cold. Other than cold showers and flashlights, everything was normal. (That’d have been because the bathroom fan wasn’t fanning, wanted to take fast showers.)
Eight days, so slightly more than a week, during Sandy. It was surreal and disorienting, but the five-day outage I went through during an ice storm in 2002 was scarier.
Irma, 2017. Killed the power all the way from South Florida thru bits of Georgia. I’m in GA, most of my family in Florida. I was sick as a dog, no power no water and nowhere to go anyway. Five days, I think? Felt like longer.
Afterward, I made sure to get coolers (turn a fridge/freezer back into an old “icebox”), battery packs (had one, but why not two?), solar charger pack (feed those battery packs; then they have stored energy enough to charge a laptop [just an example] when directly-from-solar might fall short of charge-capable on a particular device), propane grill/range, gas tank, siphon, battery-powered fan, rechargeable lights a-plenty (thankfully already had), and other items. Thankfully already had stuff like an emergency radio with solar & a dyno crank for power generation and other emergency kit / camping stuff.
Fell short of getting a portable generator or vehicle-based inverter at this time, but I’ll keep my eyes peeled if either of those show up here on Meh.
Kinda funny how stuff that’s good for camping can also be good for an emergency & vice-versa. I’ll be using some of this while camping in the future so it’s not just in case of an emergency (also get more familiarized with it.)
Didn’t we just ask this within the last couple weeks?
@katbyter Came here to say this hahaha
@katbyter they at least updated the options to include a few hours. But… Yes
August 13th.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/whats-the-longest-power-outage-youve-experienced-tell-your-story-in-the-comments
OK, who has changed their answer since the last time? (Would imply you have had a longer one, since.)
@phendrick unless your answer got shorter, in which case, you have a crappy memory.
@phendrick
We actually had an eight hour outage just last week, which may be the longest I’ve experienced. That would have changed my answer, except that I put “a day” both times.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/whats-the-longest-power-outage-youve-experienced-tell-your-story-in-the-comments#5f34bb2a027cf409c84e63cc
I used to live on the Gulf Coast. Does Marcus and Laura mean anything to you?
@hchavers Marcus and Laura sounds like a Walmart clothing line.
@hchavers
yes… rain, rain and more rain… oh and some wind.
Glad I was in NOLA last week!
@hchavers honestly if I had a girlfriend they sound like some couple she’d drag my to double date.
That being said two weak hurricanes rolling in but one on top of the other. And storm surge…
@hchavers Are they characters in your favorite daytime soap?
@hchavers @macromeh hurricanes? Maybe
Right there with you with the derecho. Lifelong Iowan and derecho was worst I’d experienced. Could have used a couple of these.
Third world country. Very fragile power grid. Major hurricane that made international news for a goodly amount of time. Lots of flooding.
But everyone there was used to a fair amount of power outage anyway.
@f00l
I gave a diff response when this q was asked earlier because was thinking of US experiences. The other non-US experience suddenly “re-reminded” itself to me.
@f00l cool… aways wished I’d had a reason to spend time in those places. Hate being a tourist though.
@f00l I wasn’t there when it happened, but:
https://www.newzimbabwe.com/baboons-switch-off-vic-falls-residents-business/
Sounds like the miscreant survived though.
2011, Hurricane Sandy in August, 9 Days. October snowstorm (First weekend) 11 Days.
Ice storm '98, little more than two weeks without power, but over a month before we could even travel on the roads.
That’s how you do a lockdown, 2020 take some notes.
@geekahedron
That sounds pretty familiar…Thankfully we had woodstove and alcohol tho for the 2 wks we were in the dark from THE ice storm!
This whole thread feels like the same answers as before…
I’ve been lucky, when the power’s gone out for a few days. Fridge and freezer weren’t too full, had nearby areas with power to get food from, was cold out but not very cold. Other than cold showers and flashlights, everything was normal. (That’d have been because the bathroom fan wasn’t fanning, wanted to take fast showers.)
@InnocuousFarmer well it was only a few weeks ago. Hopefully not too many power outages since then.
@RiotDemon That’s more recent than I would’ve guessed. Time has lost all meaning. I thought it was deja vu.
Eight days, so slightly more than a week, during Sandy. It was surreal and disorienting, but the five-day outage I went through during an ice storm in 2002 was scarier.
I spent a week camping with no power during deer season. For fun.
Does that count?
5 minutes in an elevator.
With a guy with verbal diarrhea.
While I had to pee really bad.
Marco!!!
@PocketBrain Polo!!!
Irma, 2017. Killed the power all the way from South Florida thru bits of Georgia. I’m in GA, most of my family in Florida. I was sick as a dog, no power no water and nowhere to go anyway. Five days, I think? Felt like longer.
ever since that fucker Delilah cut off my hair. i never did get my power back.
A few hours short of a full week due to the August 2020 Midwest Derecho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2020_Midwest_derecho
Afterward, I made sure to get coolers (turn a fridge/freezer back into an old “icebox”), battery packs (had one, but why not two?), solar charger pack (feed those battery packs; then they have stored energy enough to charge a laptop [just an example] when directly-from-solar might fall short of charge-capable on a particular device), propane grill/range, gas tank, siphon, battery-powered fan, rechargeable lights a-plenty (thankfully already had), and other items. Thankfully already had stuff like an emergency radio with solar & a dyno crank for power generation and other emergency kit / camping stuff.
Fell short of getting a portable generator or vehicle-based inverter at this time, but I’ll keep my eyes peeled if either of those show up here on Meh.
Kinda funny how stuff that’s good for camping can also be good for an emergency & vice-versa. I’ll be using some of this while camping in the future so it’s not just in case of an emergency (also get more familiarized with it.)
@KZeni
yeah, our camping stuff is also our ‘oh shit’ stuff when mother nature throws us a curve…
any mehtizens powerless after Laura/Marco?