Worst timing for a power outage

[Roxas1359]

It gets so hot here in the summer that power outages are both rather common and extraordinarily painful.

Where do you live in California? I live in Southern California in Chula Vista and surprisingly we don't have too many outages, even during the summer. But when we get them they are usually really bad.

I live up in Fresno. (Also known as HELL.) We actually have people drop dead from the heat when the power goes off >.>

Not surprising. Chula Vista is by the Mojave so we get Santa Anna winds a lot and it causes wildfires like every year. Which have ironically causes other power outages since the plants are in danger at times. We're still rebuilding from the wild fires we get.

Yeah, my cousins live down by San Diego so I hear all about the fires. At least you guys are close to the cool stuff though, all we've got is Yosemite. And that gets old after the 80th time you've been there.

The fires aren't fun. Especially when you still have to go to school when it is raining ash outside and the air conditioner is malfunctioning causing the ash to be sprayed into the class. Plus then the power goes out because the nearby plant needs to conserve power and you still are stuck in school. I kid you not this is what my school district made us do and parents had to take their kids out. While they were being taken out the principle was on the intercom saying not to take the kids out of school and that it is a normal school day.

 

[emeraldrafael]

When having open heart surgery.

Didnt happen to me, but it happened to a guy in my neighborhood. Hospital got struck by lightning (some genius decided to build it on the top of a hill at the highest point.

Worst moment for me while I was at school, playing an intermural hockey game. Power went out, I lost sight of the puck for just a second and the next thing I know it nailed me straight in the jaw. Glanced off my stick (since if it happens, our school wants us to stop, sticks up and blade protecting you) and only gave me a really sore bruise and some ugly swelling.

 

[Berethond]

It gets so hot here in the summer that power outages are both rather common and extraordinarily painful.

Where do you live in California? I live in Southern California in Chula Vista and surprisingly we don't have too many outages, even during the summer. But when we get them they are usually really bad.

I live up in Fresno. (Also known as HELL.) We actually have people drop dead from the heat when the power goes off >.>

Not surprising. Chula Vista is by the Mojave so we get Santa Anna winds a lot and it causes wildfires like every year. Which have ironically causes other power outages since the plants are in danger at times. We're still rebuilding from the wild fires we get.

Yeah, my cousins live down by San Diego so I hear all about the fires. At least you guys are close to the cool stuff though, all we've got is Yosemite. And that gets old after the 80th time you've been there.

The fires aren't fun. Especially when you still have to go to school when it is raining ash outside and the air conditioner is malfunctioning causing the ash to be sprayed into the class. Plus then the power goes out because the nearby plant needs to conserve power and you still are stuck in school. I kid you not this is what my school district made us do and parents had to take their kids out. While they were being taken out the principle was on the intercom saying not to take the kids out of school and that it is a normal school day.

Yeah that kind of sucks.
At my school we only have kids OD on meth and then try to stab teachers.
Oh and prostitutes. We have those too.

 

[Roxas1359]

It gets so hot here in the summer that power outages are both rather common and extraordinarily painful.

Where do you live in California? I live in Southern California in Chula Vista and surprisingly we don't have too many outages, even during the summer. But when we get them they are usually really bad.

I live up in Fresno. (Also known as HELL.) We actually have people drop dead from the heat when the power goes off >.>

Not surprising. Chula Vista is by the Mojave so we get Santa Anna winds a lot and it causes wildfires like every year. Which have ironically causes other power outages since the plants are in danger at times. We're still rebuilding from the wild fires we get.

Yeah, my cousins live down by San Diego so I hear all about the fires. At least you guys are close to the cool stuff though, all we've got is Yosemite. And that gets old after the 80th time you've been there.

The fires aren't fun. Especially when you still have to go to school when it is raining ash outside and the air conditioner is malfunctioning causing the ash to be sprayed into the class. Plus then the power goes out because the nearby plant needs to conserve power and you still are stuck in school. I kid you not this is what my school district made us do and parents had to take their kids out. While they were being taken out the principle was on the intercom saying not to take the kids out of school and that it is a normal school day.

Yeah that kind of sucks.
At my school we only have kids OD on meth and then try to stab teachers.
Oh and prostitutes. We have those too.

Seems to be common in California schools I guess.
Now we should probably stop with the little tangents a bit, unless you want to continue in PMs.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Right now, when Civil Protection is going to air at any moment (after a 1 and a half year wait)

...or I guess when your performing a critical update to your computer that if it powered down it would corrupt the hard drive... maybe...

 

[The Wykydtron]

When watching Higurashi No Naku Kuro Ni for the first time... It was only for about a minute but fuck it was scary. No lights but the crazy laughter continues

[sub]Why did it have to happen during Rena's crazy awesome speech during the first few eps?[/sub]

 

[icame]

KIlling last boss in god of war on god mode. Had him at 1/10 of his health. Only time I've ever broken a controller. Beat it the next day after trying for 2 hours.

 

[Chicago Ted]

DeadRising 1, Infinite mode, time survived so far: 6 days, 20 hours, 24 minutes... All was going fine, the barricade was holding, and I had plenty of food, and then, black screen. I woke up with only half of my controller in my hand, the other half has yet to be found.

What I take from this is "Before I had any chance of saving, dammit!", which I concur with.

Considering that you couldn't save in Infinity Mode, had to last 7 days, and in real time, meant 14 hours straight, it's FAR worse than simply "Before having a chance to save".

 

[Timedraven 117]

1)if it goes out at night. 2)Any time it happens.

 

[silver wolf009]

DeadRising 1, Infinite mode, time survived so far: 6 days, 20 hours, 24 minutes... All was going fine, the barricade was holding, and I had plenty of food, and then, black screen. I woke up with only half of my controller in my hand, the other half has yet to be found.

What I take from this is "Before I had any chance of saving, dammit!", which I concur with.

The thing is, there is no saving on infinite mode. I was about 13 hours into the nessecary 14 hours for the 7 day achievment.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

I was playing WoW and healing my guild mates for a raid. It was a rather important one as well, something that took a long time to organize and make sure everyone was online.

A squirrel got fried on the power lines outside and knocked out the power. I was healing during a boss fight too. Didn't have power til the next day and my guild was not happy.

It also killed my fish, some kinda surge in the water or lack of heater :\

 

[Astoria]

Had just completed a 19 minute polie chase on Need for Speed: Most Wanted and finally gotten the remaining achievements I needed when BAM power out. For not even for a full second. I had been trying to months to get those achievements and it took me months after to get it again. Wasn't happy

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

I had game saves on multiple PS2 games corrupted by power outages. It happened at least twice.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Last form of the multi-stage final boss of Wild ARMs 3.

I never played it again. Never even saw the ending.

 

[cystemic]

I was seven and I was playing spyro on the ps1, i had it at 99% completion and i was about to catch the last egg thief when the power blew and knocked out the tv and the playstation, I was gameless for a month, now i always buy power surge gear

 

[Terminate421]

Just a second before you hit the 'save' button on a word document that is 10+ pages.

 

[Mercy Blessed]

that time when i was talking to 3 friend in america over a chat site, trying to upload art into deviantART, and playing Thing-Thing Arena2 online and topping everyones scores. 50234 kills; topping the before-best of 450.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

When I had to submit an essay online, the power went out just as I was about to click submit. My teacher said I never turned it in and gave me zero as her first reaction. Took me two weeks to rectify this situation.

 

[dee_dubs]

Quite simply, Mordin was about to sing.

That bit is so awesome, it blacked out the local area for a few hours.

 

[Baneat]

The actual answer is midway through flashing BIOS, I've had that happen but thankfully I was flashing my netbook so the battery kicked straight in!

Probably the worst one, akin to an earthquake while you're recieving brain surgery for the PC

Thankfully mobos and VidCards are more commonly having a locked bios on a separate ROM that can't be flashed, and if you bork one you can flick to the other to repair it