Out went the lights!


Storms came through last night. Our power went out with the second crack of thunder and haven't been one since. We're up to 15 hours & counting. What's the longest you've been without power? And what did you find was the worst thing to deal with?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I was only a kid, but we lost power for a week. Icestorm knocked out power for 300,000 people and ours was between the pole and the house so low priority. I don't remember much of what we did to deal with it, just candles and fires in the fireplace.

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almost nothing better

First off, I thought this was going to be a thread dedicated to the classic song, "Boom, boom, boom let's go back to my room so we can foo foo all night". (The foo foo version is courtesy of a wonderful Greek cook I worked with)

Newfoundland is home of the snowstorm so we've been without power for a couple of days at a time. The worst thing? My father would be forever trying to trick us into doing something that required power. "Stephanie, put on the Johnny Cash record for me" -- stupid things like that!

27 hours during that summer blackout.........heat and humidity was the killer. I kept running my car to get some air conditioning. I went through a full tank of gas.

Back in South Dakota a couple of summers ago we had a storm that left my side of town without power for I think it was 6-9 hours. it was at nite so kiddo was sleeping next to me on the couch while I sat up reading by candle light.

When the power goes out here, it usually doesn't take too long for it to come back up. A day or two at the very most. When I was growing up, my father worked for the power company, so every time there was thunder, he wouldn't bother going to bed, knowing he'd be called out to work. I can tell ya that somewhere in the top of an electricity pole would not be my ideal place to be during a thunderstorm!

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Last night, after the kids went to bed we played Scrabble by candlelight. Around 10:30 or so, our asses hurt too much from sitting at the kitchen table so we considered our options.

1. Talk
2. Fuck


We went upstairs.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I think I can remember going for 3 or 4 days without power during a cold snap once. At least the apartment had a fireplace.

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

10 hrs is the most i can recall....

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2 1/2 days we lose it for a day or so at least during hurricanes

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back in the late 80s we had a major ice storm and was without power for almost 3 weeks (lived at the end of the line) kept a fire in the fireplace,used a lot of coleman fuel for lights and cooking. but if you have a well you dont have any water either!you just make the best of it by
1.talking
.playing games
pile the covers on and go to bed early
snuggle a LOT!

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The mind never forgets what the hands have learned

Back in the mid 90's we had a bad thunderstorm come threw with high winds knock out most of the power in the area. Was cooking at the time I had to go in right as the storm hit the wind was blowing dust up from the fields so much when it first started to rain it was mud but it only took a few seconds for the real rain to clean off my wind sheild. When I got to work it was slow for about the first hour but then when the storm passed we got very very busy turned out we were one of the few places with power still. We went with no power at home from monday at about 5pm tell saturday at about noon some places didn't have power back till late sunday night.

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it's only kinky the first time

it's not the orgasm but getting there thats fun

a shot in the bush is worth two in the hand

whip me, beat me, tie me up, break my arm, but please don't break my heart

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid people are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" -Bertrand Russell

*BOOM BOOM...here comes the electric company to turn off your power cause you haven't paid the bill in a few months...and we're keeping it off till you pay...which could be a month or two at a time till they passed a law that they couldn't snub us till spring*

LMFAO@Steph!

As to the longest duration without power...it had NOTHING to do with the "dunerweder" (bad weather...according to the Pa. Dutch), but because we couldn't afford to eat and have lights and heat too. It was bad at the time...but in retrospect it brought us closer together for the lack of outside distractions.

But lemme tell ya folks...to this day I do not get up to pee at night because I was so used to holding it till I HAD to get up in the morning...way back when, when the toilet seat was colder than a brass commode on the shady side of an iceberg!

The worst part of a blackout for me...in my memory...not due to storms...just from lack of money...

Mom piling 6-7 blankets over me to keep me warm...and feeling like a mummy because I could barely turn over in bed!

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Why I remember back in the Ice storm of '66(that's 1966) we were without power for three days.

((((Lixy))))) ROFL @ the iceberg crack