A rare electricity outage

in #life5 years ago

We just had a 9-hour electricity outage yesterday, and sure it's quite a rare experience...what's the last time this area experienced a planned electricity outage again?

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Without lamps, and the fan isn't spinning...

We got the notice a few days before the event, so at least we are somewhat prepared for it. Phone batteries are fully charged together with power banks just in case we need them, and laptops...hah, I tried! But that battery with only 33% max capacity left isn't helping much :P

It had been quite a boring day without electricity, considering how many things we couldn't do without it...it's not just about the Wi-Fi or electronic devices! The lights are out, and daylight isn't enough to light up the whole house. What does that mean? You have to sit at the door to read, and doing anything in other parts of the house is troublesome due to not enough light. Including floor sweeping, so stuff had to be kept dirty for a day...

For the very first time it's dirty not because I'm lazy...

Photo by Andrii Podilnyk on Unsplash

Of course, you can also read and do stuff in places like these, if they exist in the house...nope, we don't have big windows like these. :P so everyone sat at the door...hey, at least everyone was finally interacting without looking at phones all day! We have indeed evolved so much to an extent that we need special occasions like these to finally interact...It just gets funny...

We didn't go out because it's just me and the grandparents at home (who aren't too willing to walk much), so we just sat around, doing random stuff that can be done at that moment...and before we finally realized hours had passed and electricity restored. When my mum came back from work and asked about what we did during those hours, I couldn't answer! It gets scary when you realize how time flows away without you feeling it...

There isn't much electricity outage over here, most of what we have experienced were unplanned accidents (the two that I remember were caused by trees falling down and took down a wiring pole or two). One of them even happened at night and we had to use candles...nice memories, eh?

Sometimes it's only when we are forced into situations like these we'll somehow appreciate the experience they give, not like I enjoy electricity outages, but honestly speaking, I don't mind having a random "blackout day" or something every month to spice things up a bit and force us to do stuff that aren't part of daily life. But I think people might hunt me down for this suggestion... :P

Alright, that wraps it up - see you next time :)

--Lilacse


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Oh yeah, the odd blackout is a good thing to get people actually conversing.
Here in South Africa we have what is called "Load Shedding", the power gets switched off for 4 hours every day on a rotational basis across the country.
Due to mismanagement, corruption and poor planning, the danger exists that overloading the electricity feed could cause an entire collapse of the system, which could take months to fix.
Fortunately we have planned for the outages, as we have rechargeable lamps and wood fires to ward off the cold during winter.
Blessings!

This "load shedding" thing is new to me...but I think it's a good idea to sustain an electricity system when it's not good enough :) Of course, if executed well...otherwise it would be horrible!

Hoping all the best for your side!

Thank you my friend, what makes matters worse is that no planning was done and the population continued to grow unabated.
They woke up to the massive problem too late and then when they actually started doing something about it, it was a fiasco because of corruption.
Such is life my friend!
Blessings!

It has been ages since I experienced a black-out of electricity... they used to be common in Perth, Australia when I was growing up... and it was kind of fun to break out the candles and everything!

... these days, I have a portable solar panel that can charge powerbanks and phones... I hate to have the lack of power! However, there rarely is any need for it these days... it's mostly for camping!

I guess electricity outages are common everywhere when technology isn't that good yet...but see, now you have portable solar panels! I wonder where can I get one too, lol. Must be good to save on the energy used by my phone, I mean, I don't use it a lot, but every little bit of energy counts!

I can appreciate those occassional outages too to get us away from cyberspace and more into the real world!
I have a good supply of books and also we have oil lamps in preperation for the power being down.
Thanks for sharing!

We don't have oil lamps here, and their light is deemed a little too dim to read for us...but whatever that works for you! Here most of my books are e-books so it doesn't really pull me out of the cyberspace, but less connectivity in overall!

It's a common thing in rural.india....a slight rain and pffff...electricity gone...sometime more than 12-24 hrs

That doesn't sound fun...hope that things will get better in the future...

We mostly prepare with the solar panels. A one time investment but it works. We keep the battery charged through it to give good back up ....afterall if governwmnt not then we need to take care of ourself

Hmm...sounds like a good idea! Plus it's green energy, not much to complain :)

And self efficient too...

Well, a rare blackout sometimes is good for us to take ourself off the busy life of connectivity and enjoy the peacefulness of the void. Thou need to pick someplace which is a bit more chill 😂

Yeah, and maybe get surprised by how the void is friendly :P

The house is pretty chill, except not physically...it's hot in here. How I miss having trees around, now it's crazy hot under the sun without them.

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