Sleep and hope that I dream and that my dreams take me to the dream noosphere.
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Sit in the dark and enjoy solitude for once.
First, I check the lower power company's website for an estimate of when the power will come back on. If no one reported the outage, I'll take a few minutes to do so. We usually have the battery powered lights out during a storm, if it's a surpise outage, I go fetch the lights.
If the outage is going to be longer than 6 hours, I go buy some gas for the generator. I pour what isn't used during the outage into the car's fuel tank.
I use an rss reader on my phone with a lot of saved articles. I try to get through some of those.
When it to stops raining or snowing I pull the genny out of the shed, fuel it, get it running. Next, I run a few extension cords for the fridge and freezer.
Remove enterprise UPS battery backup system from home lab and use it to charge my hand held gaming consoles and phones. This was in Texas when ice storm knocked our power out for over a week
Playing a game on my phone
Read, sleep, and I usually have a hand held charged if I'm super desperate.
It usually happens in the summer in my area, when everyone had the air on full blast.
Use the batteries.
Read a book, usually Asimov.
That's why I keep a pen and paper. For power outages.
Apart from that, if there's light:
- some exercise
- kirigami
- wash clothes (by hand)
- eat random (edible) stuff which I would otherwise use to cook
- cooking needs electricity
No light:
- sleep
The best light I have actually had to use during a power cut is this:
https://www.wexphotovideo.com/phottix-t200r-rgb-led-tube-light-3112051/
I was cleaning my walk in closet and the power went out, I was in the zone and needed to keep going to get it done, so I grabbed one of my two lights and kept going.
I sit on my phone until the power comes back on. Rarely lasts for more than an hour. I think I've had more outage time from them doing maintenance than from weather.
Sleep.
Haven't delt with that in a long time. Closest I had was maybe an hour or less because I live close to an elderly home and they usually get power restored real quick. I just stayed on my phone, which thankfully was charged, as I went with my parents to get candles. Never got candles since power came back so quick.
Longest I was without it because of an outage was around 2014 maybe, in winter. Cold days/nights spent in the living room, probably using the fireplace for the first time ever since I lived there. Used my phone and probably had other means of keeping myself entertained. Don't recall much about it because it was a decade ago. Neighbor across the street was an amazing person because she let us take an extension cable cord thing from her house to ours when they got power back. I do remember watching a video when all of the sudden the power came back, though.
As for what I'd do now, probably cry and hope my Steam Deck/laptop/phone are charged. Also probably get batteries for a radio CD cassette mini boom box thing I got from a thrift store recently and play music, plugging in my headphones. I've got enough CDs to last a short while.
Out by RCH here. Nary a blip. You good?
We're good! It came back on for us earlier. The crews are working hard out there
Beauty news -- they do prioritize well, at least. My work group (remote) still has a peer out in Sooke with issues, but that's a lot of greenspace and loooong cables. CobbleHill just came up as well. Islander communities will be out the longest, but the BCHydro map will get rid of most of those measles by day's end I think. I think they're doing well in a bad situation, but I have the luxury of saying so in comfort, so Grain of Salt and all.
Agreed, the map made it seem like a lot of separate incidents were all happening at the same time. I'm impressed with how efficiently they're working through it all
The best light is the cheap usba plastic bulb ones that plug into any power bank. They last forever on battery power and provide decent enough light.
I am always amazed that power outages are such a common experience in north America. In more than 55 years here in Europe I have experienced exactly two power outages, one that was planned when they were working in the substation for this street, and one incident that took out a whole part of the city for 20 minutes. The latter one was so extraordinary that it made the national evening news.
I recently bough a new flashlight, a Wurkkos FC11C to be exact. It's pretty good for the price, and it really can't hurt to have a good flashlight around. I made a post about it in !flashlight@lemmy.world about it, and there are some other posts too.
Some things that can help:
- Bottled water and dry foods
- First aid kit
- BBQ or camping stove with their fuel
- extra fuel for your vehicle
- Backup batteries for phones and computers
- A radio, something hand charged or solar
- Playing cards, books, board games and puzzles
My parents bought this portable power bank and it cones in very handy during these storms (also in Vancouver area). It we can charge devices, plug in a lamp, or even a portable induction cooktop.
That said, during a power outage I'll mostly play board games, listen to music, play my guitar, or read.
Dunno, haven't had one in many years. Don't think I had one longer than a few minutes ... ever. Guess I'll find out if it ever comes to that.