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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382023) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Dec

The photo is of a guinea pig, not a mouse. I heard a story today that I found amusing. The country town where we both grew up has two major grocery stores, Coles and IGA. A few months back, a naughty mouse chewed through a...

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Power Cuts Really Annoying, Do You Face Them?

Nitin @nitirrbb7 (4317) • India 17 Sep 19

I have some urgent work to be completed and mailed and there is this unexpected power cut since morning. Earlier they use to inform about power cut to be scheduled at so and so time prior. But now they have stopped and just cut...

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Thank Loki For Glow Sticks!

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 2 Jul 18

I got into the habit of having flashlights and extra batteries in every room in case the power went out. In theory that's a great idea but if your household is like mine, the flashlights grow legs and walk away. Glow sticks...

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Power, But Not Powerball, Lucky Day and MyLot

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 29 Jun 18

So, last night a very major storm rolled through town with 80 mile per hour winds, tornadoes, and other fun stuff. We never had a tornado actually touch down, but we did lose power. Today was around 106 degree heat index. Great...

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In The Dark

Morley Hunt @Morleyhunt (21741) • Canada 15 Apr 18

Yesterday was a trying day. The power was out for three and a half hours in the morning. In the afternoon, I went to watch my grandchildren perform in the homeschooling spring program. (I was the proud grandma...

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Moon light

Neha211985 @neha211985 (779) • India 2 Mar 18

Tonight is really beautiful, even power failure made it more beautiful. Pl check picture clicked by me.

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Very dark this morning

koopharper @koopharper (7599) • Canada 18 Jul 16

We started the day in the dark. Fortunately my alarm clock runs on batteries. Came back shortly after I got out of bed. I am grateful for that. I was beginning to look a little grizzled and shaving in the dark is not high on my...

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Weird!

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 9 May 16

We had gotten home from shopping and made our dinner. I had just finished eating when it happened. What was it? Well, the power went off. No storm, no rain, no nothing! Sitting here, minding my own business and BAM!...

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Home Alone Again

Vivenda @Vivenda (583) • Portsmouth, England 4 Dec 15

Yet again, I am an abandoned female. My husband and my son have gone off on a walking weekend with some of the men from church and left me All Alone! How very dare they! Actually, things were going quite well. Once I settle...

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Challenging Day Today

Marja @buenavida (9984) • Sweden 16 Dec 10

Well, it started by Internet disappearing. Well, I have a card that I put into my laptop, but it is too expensive before 7 PM, so I had to wait. Later in the evening I started surfing with the card that...

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A Nine Year Power Failure

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 20 Aug 10

Can you imagine waiting nine years for your power company to turn your power back on for NINE years? That's exactly what this village in Pilibhit district has had to endure after its main transformer developed a snag in 2001....

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Power Failure - Acer Aspire 5920 Laptop

mstriguna @mstriguna (418) • India 7 Apr 10

I got an Acer Aspire Laptop 5920 2 years back. From past 2 years I did not face any problem with this laptop. I do not know the reason for this power failure may be power fluctuations in my house but suddenly my laptop got...

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Will you be able to live without electricity?

esoterichermit @esoterichermit (10) • Philippines 15 Mar 10

With the inevitable energy crisis looming in the horizon, the question is can you survive without electricity?

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25,000 out of power in Sacramento due to storm

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 13 Oct 09

It never rains in California, so how can that be? We have this lovely storm that has hit us. Apparently it is the remnants of a hurricane that hit Japan (so I'm told by somebody saw it on the news). It came...

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power failure is really depressing and irritating

tigeraunt @tigeraunt (6326) • Philippines 25 Sep 09

Dear Friends, We are facing frequent power failures here, on some days the duration usually lasts from 15 minutes to several hours. Last night the power failed from 11:58 pm while i was doing responses to and i fell asleep...

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No electricity in Lapu-Lapu City

Daddy Neil @neildc (17238) • Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines 14 Aug 09

Since about 2pm today, the lights are out. We are affected in the office since most of us are using computers. Good for me and one of the other personel who has UPS with our computers. I pity one staff who is the duty secretary...

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What do you do during power cuts?

sivanj @sivanj (1263) • India 14 Aug 08

Yeah i have had the experience of power cuts as you would have. But i really get annoyed when the power goes off during weekends. I wish to spend some time playing games or watching TV but then the power goes of and we don't have...

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Totally Black...

diutay @diutay (1327) • Philippines 7 Aug 08

I was saying something about black-outs when out of the blue, our secretary asked why they call it black-out when there's power failure. Furthermore, she asked what's the difference between a brown-out and a black-out. Not sure of...

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Lights Off...

diutay @diutay (1327) • Philippines 5 Aug 08

I was responding to some discussions last night or was it early this morning when suddenly the everything went out. Another power failure. I wasn't tired nor sleepy but I couldn't read nor use the pc. I just went to bed but...

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How do you feel when there's a power outage or a power failure?

shiloh_222 @shiloh_222 (5479) • Philippines 30 Jul 08

hehhee.. me? i will do alot of things to avoid going berserk... just kidding... anyway, i can't stand the heat in our country so i would be finding ways to cool myself down like go to the mall and stay there until the power comes...

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