Creepy!!

[ChicagoBlue2]

The house lost power for a few minutes, and the emergency lights near the stairs were activated. Now the power is back on, and it's like nothing happened. That's really odd. Can anyone says BOO?

Update: I just checked the WiFi network for the house, and one of the wifi's is down, and the others are likely to follow before long. I know this because it happened the last time we lost power, all three went out for a good while.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

I once lost power for a for few hours , a squirrel got into the city generator
and was cooked . I bet the poor squirrel is saying boo now!

 

[ChicagoBlue2]

Wirelessly posted (ZTE X501 Phone)

I once lost power for a for few hours , a squirrel got into the city generator
and was cooked . I bet the poor squirrel is saying boo now!

Poor squirrel indeed. You might be right, but there aren't any generators around here, and the closest one is 12 miles away.

 

[Dreamer03]

Not nice going with no electricity

 

[Reba]

I once lost power for a for few hours , a squirrel got into the city generator
and was cooked . I bet the poor squirrel is saying boo now!

Mmmm . . . grilled squirrel . . . yummy!

j/k

 

[hoichi]

creepy?
meh

 

[Reba]

Wirelessly posted (ZTE X501 Phone)

Poor squirrel indeed. You might be right, but there aren't any generators around here, and the closest one is 12 miles away.

With all your ice storms I'm surprised you don't lose power more often.

Power outages are inconvenient but I don't think they're creepy.

During and after Hurricane Hugo we were without electricity throughout the entire area for days and weeks. We also had no running water, no sewer service, and no gas pumps working. Our landline phones worked. Everyone was living primitive style.

The only time I was a little creeped out by a power outage was when I was kid living in Connecticut in 1965.

Northeast blackout of 1965 - Ask.com Encyclopedia

The reason it was scary was because a lot of people thought it was the result of a Soviet attack on America.

I remember the lights going out in our house. No big deal. Then, we went outside and looked around. The whole neighborhood was dark, and the weather was fine. Hmmm…So we listened to our portable battery radio for news. We found out the whole city was out. OK. Then we heard the whole state was blacked out. Hmmm…Then we heard NYC was out. OK, not good. Then we heard, all of New England was blacked out. Uh, oh, definitely not good. Then we heard part of Canada was blacked out! Whoa! What's going on? It was out for about 13 hours, and no one knew why. (This was the age when some families had bomb shelters.)

 

[ChicagoBlue2]

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Poor squirrel indeed. You might be right, but there aren't any generators around here, and the closest one is 12 miles away.

With all your ice storms I'm surprised you don't lose power more often.

Power outages are inconvenient but I don't think they're creepy.

During and after Hurricane Hugo we were without electricity throughout the entire area for days and weeks. We also had no running water, no sewer service, and no gas pumps working. Our landline phones worked. Everyone was living primitive style.

The only time I was a little creeped out by a power outage was when I was kid living in Connecticut in 1965.

Northeast blackout of 1965 - Ask.com Encyclopedia

The reason it was scary was because a lot of people thought it was the result of a Soviet attack on America.

I remember the lights going out in our house. No big deal. Then, we went outside and looked around. The whole neighborhood was dark, and the weather was fine. Hmmm…So we listened to our portable battery radio for news. We found out the whole city was out. OK. Then we heard the whole state was blacked out. Hmmm…Then we heard NYC was out. OK, not good. Then we heard, all of New England was blacked out. Uh, oh, definitely not good. Then we heard part of Canada was blacked out! Whoa! What's going on? It was out for about 13 hours, and no one knew why. (This was the age when some families had bomb shelters.)

Back in 2011, this house lost power for a full 7 days, and at that time, I had about $200 worth of food stored away, and I lost it all. Now, we have a wire connecting this house to the primary ones in the alley-- only way we get power is through that wire. Without it, we'd be screwed.

We lost power when lightning struck a tree, and knocked off a large branch, which then took out the wires, and badly damaged the electrical meter box to the point a total makeover was required. We got a larger fuse box, and newer equipment, and the price was thousands of dollars for repairs.

 

[Frisky Feline]