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What do you like to do during a power outage? (lemmy.ca)

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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?

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[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Hahaha you should see the outage map of Washington State.

What do I like to do? Nothing, I hate power outages.

What I typically do is I have a large stockpile of candles from an old MLM scheme. I light those and play on my phone if there's Internet. We have multiple battery banks for these occasions.

If there's no Internet I will read. Both ebooks and regular books because my attention will shift.

I also try to do something productive like study for something.

Most of all I pile like eleventy billion blankets on the bed because I'm so cold. The furry ones are poor space heaters.

When I was a kid we always played games. Like charades or something. My dad would light the camp stove and we'd entertain ourselves for the evening as a family. They were nice.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I think my last power outage was 30 years ago and i loved it. Lighting candles and playing boardgames. I never even considered that that's a thing that still happens.

[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I live rurally and have spent the night without power 3 times in the last 2 months.

It gets old.

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