What do you like to do during a power outage? - eviltoast

We’re dealing with some stormy weather here (Vancouver for me, but it covers a wider area) and so a patchwork of homes across the region are having power outages. Crews are working to restore it

So on that note, what do you like to do?

  • ways to prepare, what to buy, a favourite flashlight from !flashlight@lemmy.world?
  • how you pass the time
  • any stories that come to mind?
  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Wait for the power to come back on.

    Think about opening the fridge and pointlessly looking to boredom eat, then remember I shouldn’t open the fridge and let the cold escape because the power is off. Repeat.

    Think about how much of our lives revolve around and are entirely dependent on electricity, and how bad loss of power would be even for just a couple days, and disastrous it would be for a week or more.

    Wish I’d remembered to recharge my phone power banks.

    Where are all the books? I used to have books to read. They’re all on my phone now. Shit. Need to save battery.

    Guess I’ll see if I can find some candles. Maybe the fam will want to play a board game.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      Think about opening the fridge and pointlessly looking to boredom eat, then remember I shouldn’t open the fridge and let the cold escape because the power is off. Repeat.

      ADHD, power outages, and a fridge. That’s how that goes.