power outage

[Gerianne]

I live near downtown Fort Myers in Florida. It seems to be a prime spot for power outages. Seventeen hundred homes lost power last night.  My computer goes nuts, but other than that all was well. I got rid of a clock that I kept having to reset. I bought a projection clock that keeps the time [Oregon Scientific Self-Setting Atomic].  My phone kept the time as well, once the power came back on.

[Skyisbluetoday]

I haven't seen a power outage in about 3 month's, but it was for a transformer! 

[kimber62372]

I had one last night. The rain was coming down insanely intense! Power came back on within minutes but I was studying for my midterm and all of a sudden everything was BLACK! LOL!! Next time I will keep a flash light near by.

[luvh8tragedy87]

Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

[Timberlan127]

We used to have power outages all the time where I live but I have to say in the last few years we have had very few. So it is getting better.

[countrygirl12]

Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

It is a good idea when the power goes out to unplug your computer so that when the power comes back on you don't have a power surge.  We have always had surge protectors and the power had went off and then when it came back on there was a power surge and it not only fried the computer but literally caught it on fire.  Good thing I was there when it happened.  Although, all I done was started screaming for my brother. lol.  He threw it outside.

[luvh8tragedy87]

Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

It is a good idea when the power goes out to unplug your computer so that when the power comes back on you don't have a power surge.  We have always had surge protectors and the power had went off and then when it came back on there was a power surge and it not only fried the computer but literally caught it on fire.  Good thing I was there when it happened.  Although, all I done was started screaming for my brother. lol.  He threw it outside.

I did do that after the power went out. Something went on when the power went out. That's what the computer place told me it was anyway, a surge. There was nothing salvageable on there. Fortunately I back up everything I do so I wasn't too concerned about that.

[reiddb]

That sinks~especially when dinner isn't quite finished in the oven~

[Forp]

Once had one that lasted for 5 days.  I felt like I was in survival training...how to live without electricity in 5 hard lessons.