Anyone been in a blackout?

yah i remember once a few years back... there was a massive blackout... i remember feeding the mosquitos the whole nite long...

i'm glad i have never experienced anything longer than a couple of hours.. :sweat:

Hohoho! The power blackout occured here last night as well!
After the NY/Canada incident the representatives of the electricity company assured there would never be such an incident as in the US...they use different system from the US, not dependin on the major power source...oops...the power went out in the middle of watchin Phone Booth movie at 20.15 local time last night. The blackout affected the Capital region and its surroundings.
We all went for a stroll, hehe. Power went back on at 21.00. Hehe! I bet ppl lmao'ed at the electricity company :hehe: braggin off

arashinokoto wrote:yah.. singapore's news was also reporting that big blackout.. so you experienced it..??

well.. a blackout did happen to my house once when i was about 10.. but then when we went out to check.. only my house had no electricity.. as we live in a block of flats it was kind of wierd.. only when my mom checked the box at the stairway landing then she realised the reason.. a bird had built its nest inside the box.. accidently turning the main switch off... :hehe: it was soo interesting.. i had to sit outside the corridor to do my homework wait for my electricity man to fix it again.. neighbours were rather surprised to see me and my bro in our pjs doing homework in the corridor... :sweat:

Oh my god! The 'bird nest' incident!! It happened in my secondary school once. Everybody was so excited abt it!! hahaha! It was hilarious!

vienna_sg wrote:Happen once which i think last yr. The eastern S'pore was affected. Luckily it happen during the day and power was restored a few hrs later.

Oh yeah, i heard abt it but i didn't realised coz i was asleep the whole time the black-out happened. And there's also another incident, but i was in KL, M'sia.

i've experienced it plenty of times. it's quite common in my country :mad:

DarKchylD wrote:yah i remember once a few years back... there was a massive blackout... i remember feeding the mosquitos the whole nite long...

:rofl: hehehe


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karen who is hoping someone would seed Beautiful Life 4

(again this is funny!)

Gotta chalk up to New York spirit of toughness. But the difference for me is that until 10 years ago I was living in a hellhole somewhere in South America. From 1988 to 1991 it was nothing but one blackout after another. SOmetimes it was terrorism (as in, blowing up line towers) and others it was the damn utility rationing the juice (as in, 12 hours juice and 12 not). So I was quite prepared for this one...

Well I think mine lasted for half a day or so. It was weird and we knew something was wrong when we drove down a street and 5 or 6 street lights were out (and may I add there was 4 or 5 crashes on the way as well, thank god I'm ok :P)

I don't think it was too detrimental to me, I was occupied for around 3 or 4 hours, then dinner, gba and just slept early.

takuya_angel wrote:Oh my god! The 'bird nest' incident!! It happened in my secondary school once. Everybody was so excited abt it!! hahaha! It was hilarious!

i guess that happens quite often in singapore rather than a real blackout.. haha.. :hehe:

Ren wrote:Anyone here been in a blackout before? Its been a big news in the USA for two days straight now. Three or four states in the east coast of the US experience blackout including the state of New York. I thought blackout was fun when i was young.

Here in my part of California it happens somwhere between 4-8 times a year. It's expected almost every year during a storm or something and it sucks because although we do have the ones that last for 10 hours or so, our blackouts have the tendency to come in and out super quicly and ruining television sets, computers and any technology.

That's why they sell so many APC battery backups here in the area I guess. My important computer related hardware is hooked up to one and everything else on surge protectors. My parents bought a new big screen TV and there was a blackout two weeks ago and kept coming on and off super quick and then their TV stopped working after the power came back on hours later.

But I suppose if I lived in New York...where I was stuck in an office in a high rise or in an elevator or during the hot summer, I'd go nuts.

It's just so eerie when you go out and everything is pitched black and quiet.... My only way of going through my house is through the light on my cel phone or PDA.

kndy

kndy-nt2099 wrote:

Here in my part of California it happens somwhere between 4-8 times a year. It's expected almost every year during a storm or something and it sucks because although we do have the ones that last for 10 hours or so, our blackouts have the tendency to come in and out super quicly and ruining television sets, computers and any technology.

4-8 times??? Where in California are you?

try living in the philippines, theyre always black out there.. even if i havent been there for 12 years. i still remember how it feels going through all that almost every day.. so if it happens here in the US, i can still move instead of panicking

My housing area always had this problem. 3-4 times a year. :mad:
I remembered the worst one was happened at my birthday.... :angry: even reported by newspaper.
During that day, we had a hard time finding restuarant.......i just sitting in my dad's car my whole birthday night...... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
4-8 times??? Where in California are you?

Hiya, this took place in the Central Cali. area. I've never had this problem in the Bay Area or Los Angeles but it happens quite a bit.

kndy

kndy-nt2099 wrote:

Hiya, this took place in the Central Cali. area. I've never had this problem in the Bay Area or Los Angeles but it happens quite a bit.

kndy

Hmm, seems really odd that Central Californnia would be more subsceptible to blackouts than any other part of California...

Would brownouts be more of a pain in the neck than blackouts? I would suspect that the brownouts would happen more frequently.

we have blackouts all the time... :shakehead:

niko2x wrote:Would brownouts be more of a pain in the neck than blackouts? I would suspect that the brownouts would happen more frequently.

i wonder why they call brownout? anyway brownout and blackouts are the same -_-

MixxDreamer wrote:i wonder why they call brownout? anyway brownout and blackouts are the same -_-

Nope, they're not the same: A brownout is when the voltage level drops way below the norm, whereas a blackout is a total loss of power... :)