You know you live in a good neighborhood when…
By Amber
@AmbiePam (122392)
United States
July 7, 2026 12:00pm CST
Still no electricity. Now they are saying Wednesday (tomorrow) morning. I am so thankful I have a place to go with air conditioning. Can you imagine how badly the rest of my neighbors are suffering? Some of them don’t even have cars so they can’t even go to a cooling station. The retired lady across from me can’t even go to her grandchildren’s because their electricity is out too.
Anyway, last night everyone had gone to bed, and I was watching television. Now, I always check my deadbolt lock before I go to bed at my house. Out of habit, I went and checked my dad’s front door. Unlocked. On a hunch, I checked their garage door. Unlocked. I locked both of them, and went to bed. I don’t care where you live; you’ve got to lock your doors!
My paternal grandmother lived in the country, and when my sister and I would stay with her, I’d get up after she went to bed and lock her doors. I was like eight years old, but I wasn’t taking any chances!
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@LooeyVille (31)
• United States
12h
I am a fanatic about locking our door, garage door, hotel room doors, etc. immediately upon entering the dwelling.
I don't think the electrical issue singled out your neighborhood intentionally. If there are outages all across the city, they have to fix hospitals and government offices first.
One time in the Summer (of course) of 1998 I think we lost electricity for a week after a major storm. We just had to wait until they got to our neighborhood because it was a large storm that affected the whole city.
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@snowy22315 (210243)
• United States
11h
I am not particular about locking my door during the day, but I have to because of Nico, He will try to pick the door open otherwise. At night I insist. I have forgotten a few times, and have gotten upset with myself.
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@FourWalls (87499)
• United States
3h
I let people in my house for maintenance work (electrician, plumber, etc), and lock the door behind them. I remember my grandparents living way out in the country and never locking their doors. Living in the city I never had that “luxury,” but that also means it’s a habit I never had to break.
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@Juliaacv (56673)
• Canada
9h
We never used to lock the door from the garage to the house, but in the last 6 or 8 years living in the country, we would lock the other doors.
Today we lock all of our doors, day or night, they are locked.
The world has changed so much, and not for the better.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (90495)
• Rupert, Idaho
8h
Sorry to hear about the loss of electricity, that's a long time to be without it!
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@RasmaSandra (98780)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9h
Glad you have a place to cool off, I sure hope that electric comes back on,
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@thelme55 (79618)
• Germany
11h
I would feel unsafe If the doors are not locked.
When we were living in the countryside of the west of Ireland. I noticed that our neighbours didn’t lock their doors. My husband adopted that habit but I didn’t. I told him to always lock the door especially when we were sleeping.
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