Are you prepared?

[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.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Food? Sandwiches.
Light? Candles.
Entertainment? Books.

Yup, I'm prepared.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Yeah, I've been through a few "disasters" in my lifetime and growing older has only made me more cautious, so I prepare ahead of time.

 

[Zeraki]

I've got books and emergency flashlights, so I'm good. I used to go camping all the time, so being without electricity is something I can easily adapt to.

 

[Reaper195]

2 days is piss-ant. I live in New Zealand, and a mate of mine who works as a fire fighter in Christchurch had to deal without power at his house and his station for a little over three months. Not to mention the entire region is still being hit with random earthquakes.

 

[Naeo]

My dorm is both on the city's power grid and has its own substantial backup generator just in case. But god help us if both of those get fucked up.

 

[Roxas1359]

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.

I remember that. We felt some aftershocks here from that earthquake. It tore up my street since it didn't have much maintenance on it.

 

[F-I-D-O]

I just got some Warhammer Omnibus
I'm set for a while, even without power.

 

[funguy2121]

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.

Read. Go hang out with a friend. That's about it.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I lived with that for half of my life. Stupid power surges tripping the only substation on my grid...