Four Hours of Darkness
By rakski
@rakski (156589)
Philippines
May 8, 2018 12:18pm CST
Hello everyone.
It is nice to experience light after darkness, as the title said, we just experience four hours of total darkness with no power. It started with the unexpecyed rain with rolls of thunder and lightning. Then a loud thud abd ka-boom, power no more.
It was so hard because it was supposed to be the bed time of the kids and yet they cannot sleep because of the humidity and heat.
Four excruciating hours that my arms hurt because me and my husband need to produce wind for them.
Now, I am still up. 
Have you experience this?
Have you experience this?18 people like this
20 responses
@silvermist (19701)
• India
8 May 18
Here too power failure is something that seem to happen daily.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
12 May 18
@rakski No particular time.That is the main trouble,we can't anticipate the time.
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@rakski (156589)
• Philippines
13 May 18
@silvermist aw. That is much worst. To have unpredictable power outage.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
9 May 18
yes, here in our place, when we have a very heavy downpour coupled with flashes of lightning and roars of thunder, power interruption follows next.i believe it may be because some trees might have fallen across the electricity wires, or it can be switched off the the electric cooperative to protect further fire hazards
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@rakski (156589)
• Philippines
10 May 18
@ridingbet according to our neighbor, the lightning hit rhe transfirmer. Not exactly sure because a I heard a loud thud but no fire whatsoever or light that flashes
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 May 18
@rakski here, sometimes it is the transformer that cannot handle the large loads of electricity.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
8 May 18
Yes, we did but that was back when I was in college. We had to exhaust all our powers to be able to fan ourselves. It was hell.
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@allen0187 (59828)
• Philippines
9 May 18
Experience this last night but the power went out for a second and then came back on.
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
9 May 18
You are really great parents. When there was no electricity many years ago, did parents do it , too?
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@epiffanie (11327)
• Australia
9 May 18
that's the one thing I don't like when they have hours of blackouts .. It's not easy during the night specially when you have children ..
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
9 May 18
I don't mind the power block out at least it was raining, but if it was hot then i would have trouble sleeping.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54720)
• United States
9 May 18
Yes we have and I know how miserable it is. 
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
9 May 18
Dang, sounds scary hope all is well.
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@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
12 May 18
I did not experience this. I was in the hospital. I went back to the ENT doctor to secure a certificate.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
9 May 18
I've lived through power outages but it mostly happens in the winter months during snow storms.
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