power out in my neighborhood

[Rebecka Fan]

The power is out in my neighborhood right now. My street and at least 4 streets behind us and in front of us. Scary!! We have flashlights and candles. I'm using my laptops power to type this, so I only have 4 hours of power. The power has been out for about 2 hours so far. Time will only tell how long it will be out. The radio (battery powered) news hasn't said anything about the outage, so we'll just have to wait. We don't know how much further the power is out from our neighborhood or if it is out elsewhere.

[Ian]

Ah, they're always fun, aren't they? We have them all the time here. We had one for about 2-3 hours on Christmas Day last year!

[Rebecka Fan]

Ah, they're always fun, aren't they? We have them all the time here. We had one for about 2-3 hours on Christmas Day last year!

There was a MAJOR power outage, I'm not sure how may years ago, but it was HUGE!!! It covered most of the Eastern parts of the US and Eastern Canada. Power was out for days, weeks for a lot of people. Maybe even longer. It didn't effect Florida though.

[Ian]

I bet that was fun.

Two days without power in Adelaide and they'd start eating each other, I'm sure.

[fish]

Two days without power in Adelaide and they'd start eating each other, I'm sure.

I can vouch for that. I'm out in the NE burbs and we have them on a fairly regular basis. Anytime a branch blows near a line, or some clown takes out a stobie pole with his car, 2 - 3 hours out at least.

Makes us all a bit feral in this neck of the woods.

Anyway Kyle, hope your power comes back on-line soon.