Exhausted: I Hate Power Outage...

@Shavkat (141906)

Philippines

February 5, 2021 3:15am CST

As of this moment, I was so toxic because of the unannounced power outage. My brother keeps on shouting that it is brownout. Despite this, I managed to crack a joke with him. Why do we need to call it 'brownout'?

It is better to say 'blackout." I was laughing because he cannot process my point.

We can just call it a 'power outage.' Now, I am back teaching online and exhausted. Can you imagine how I need to carry a generator out of the house?

Can you still manage to crack a joke despite being stressed out? Which is appropriate, brownout or blackout? Image Credit: media1.giphy.com

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@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

5 Feb 21

Brownout and blackout are different. A blackout is a complete interruption of power. A brownout is a partial, temporary reduction in system voltage. So it depends what you experienced.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I think we experienced a brownout. For the reason that it is the whole city for an hour. Is it?

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

@LadyDuck Are there any time duration to categorize them?

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@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat NO that was a blackout NOT a brownout.

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@eileenleyva (27555)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

It's brownout if the power outage is brief and localized. It's blackout if the power outage is long and covers the whole city or province. Yup. Humor somehow provides ease during a difficult situation. So, they say, be done with it.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I got it now. We experienced a brownout for an hour.

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@eileenleyva (27555)

• Philippines

9 Feb 21

@Shavkat This day and age, power outages must not be tolerated. The government does impose penalty for late tax payments.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

6 Feb 21

Power outage is regular here but we have the home UPS that takes care of the computer, tv, fans and lights.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat Why don't you go in for a UPS or Invertor?

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I felt bad that we sometimes experienced It is heart-stopping when there is an unannounced power outage.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

@allknowing I sometimes go to UPS, but it is quite slow to earn here. Any tips? I haven't tried Invertor. Is the platform the same thing?

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@DaddyEvil (174281)

• United States

5 Feb 21

If the power flickers and then comes right back on it is called a brownout. If the power goes off and stays off for a while it is a blackout. It's very rare for us to lose our power unless there is some extenuating circumstances. The last time I can remember losing power was ten years ago when we had freezing rain. It coated the power lines with so much ice that they pulled loose from our house. It took three weeks before the power company could fix our wires. (The ice coating my car was about five inches (12.7 cm) thick. It took me a week to carefully chip the ice off enough I could open my car door to start the car and let it defrost itself. It was really bad.) Some of my friends who didn't lose power during the storm came and took me to their house for the three weeks.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I can call it brownout then. It laster for an hour. It is not often to have power interruptions here, too. If there is, the electric company will release scheduled power interruptions. It usually happens during the wet season.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

@DaddyEvil Uhm, it seems that I need to check out this more then.

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@DaddyEvil (174281)

• United States

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat If it lasted more than a minute or two, then it was a blackout.

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@rakski (156260)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

it the power back now?

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

The power outage lasted for an hour. I am feeling so drained in setting up the generator to have classes online.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

@rakski Yes, I was having my first class in the afternoon.

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@rakski (156260)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

@Shavkat and did you have class at that time?

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@arunima25 (93194)

• Bangalore, India

5 Feb 21

Good to have a sense of humor in challenging or annoying times.

. I hope the power is back. Was it a brown out or black out??

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I think it is a brownout because it took an hour without electricity.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Feb 21

@arunima25 I am quite confused now.

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@arunima25 (93194)

• Bangalore, India

6 Feb 21

An hour is long enough to be called a blackout. But if it was localised, brownout would be more appropriate.

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@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

5 Feb 21

Brownout is very foreign to me, I usually use the term blackout.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

It is the other way around here. To be safer, it is better to say power interruption.

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@prinzcy (32299)

• Malaysia

6 Feb 21

If power outage happened now, I will be in rage. We can't go out if that happened. If not I could take everyone to the nearest river. Since it's MCO, we'll be stuck in the house, melting. Even the backyard is not cool right now.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Feb 21

I can feel you. It is a big no for me not to have power when teaching online. There is no option to cancel the classes.

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@RebeccasFarm (91299)

• United States

5 Feb 21

Sorry to hear it..they say black out here

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I also saw the explanations of others. If the power outage in a large scale, they call it a blackout.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Feb 21

@RebeccasFarm I think it is.

@RebeccasFarm (91299)

• United States

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat Yes a huge one is blackout right

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

5 Feb 21

How awful! That must be so awful. Nothing like that happens here, although we once or twice had a huge blackout that resulted in entire area to lose power.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Feb 21

Whenever it happens here, I always think that it is better than in lowland areas. It is too hot to bear the weather in these places.

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

5 Feb 21

@Shavkat I’m sure!

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@JudyEv (381837)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Feb 21

When I was a governess up north, we had 'School of the Air' and we had battery operate radio sets. If the batteries went flat, we had to rush around to find some that would work.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I had experienced this before, especially in lowland areas. Actually, I experienced during my childhood years with my grandparents' hometown. Now, thanks to the 4th Industrial Revolution, life became much easier than in the past.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Feb 21

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@JudyEv (381837)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat Yes life has improved in many areas.

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@RitzzView (3041)

• India

5 Feb 21

I do jokes when I am stressed out. Some people don't g used to get me. Its just my mechanism to deal with stress. I do lots of jokes pone after other and the other person just laughs so hard... Its nice

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@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

5 Feb 21

Humor can get us through many situations.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I agree. It can bring us to situations that we need to deal with. Except for some who are escaping away from them.

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@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

6 Feb 21

@DocAndersen (54399)

• United States

5 Feb 21

we have those during the summer often. It is a brownout if it is intentional. but I agree when it isn't intentional blackout is a much better description!

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

I am not sure why the local people here call it brownout. I guess they used to have a power outage on a large scale in the past before the 4th Industrial Revolution.

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@DocAndersen (54399)

• United States

6 Feb 21

@Shavkat so normally a brown out refers to a smaller area than a blackout. In addition to the concept of intentional vs accidental.

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@Janet357 (75638)

•

5 Feb 21

so yoi cancelled your classes?

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Feb 21

It is not an option to cancel the classes. I carried on when my generator works. As expected, I was being complained about by one of my students.