What's the longest power outage you experienced?
By Toni
@toniganzon (77029)
Philippines
June 7, 2026 5:44am CST
A week ago, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines announced a 12 hour power outage for June 7th from 6am to 6pm.
12 hours is too long. Fortunately, we have gen set at the store and at home so we really didn't suffer much. Usual operation continued.
Small businesses had to close down though coz they really couldn't function without power. And it was too hot during the day.
Fortunately, the outage didn't last for 12 hours. The power was restored just before 3 in the afternoon.
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11 responses
@toniganzon (77029)
• Philippines
19h
That's really terrible. The longest power outage I experienced I think was many years ago when Yolanda hit us hard. Took over a month for the power to be restored. But that was because there was a calamity.
But on normal days, we hardly experience any power outage at all unless they have to fix something in the power grid or an upgrade is being done but no longer than a day.
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@rakski (156175)
• Philippines
18h
@toniganzon true!
Calamity is different from regular days. It was terrible. Good thing we have somewhere to go to. The eczema of kids flared up due to heat
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@allen0187 (59615)
• Philippines
7h
Good thing you have gen sets.
IIRC ten hours was the longest.
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@snowy22315 (208688)
• United States
17h
We had 3 day power outages two times in the last 20 years, usually it is just a a few hours if there is a power outage.
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@celticeagle (189736)
• Boise, Idaho
13h
I hate power outages. I think the longest one I have ever experienced is about 3-4 hours. That was when a transformer went down.
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@Deepizzaguy (122044)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
7h
The longest power outage happened about two years ago which lasted about three hours around lunchtime due to a small problem with a transformer.
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@FourWalls (86533)
• United States
3h
In September 2008, we had the remnants of Hurricane Ike come through Kentucky. My power was out from noon on Sunday until 8:30 PM the following Sunday, or 176 1/2 hours.
@LadyDuck (502075)
• Italy
18h
I remember that a few years ago, when we still lived in Switzerland, the power Grid Corporation had to perform a major upgrade. They announced a 4 hours power outage during the night, from 1 am to 5 am. I think it lasted less, but I was sleeping so I cannot know.
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