What's the longest you've been without power?

Question

(By power, I mean electricity, heat, etc.) We finally got our power back here in Seattle, Washington after about 5 days of no heat or electricity. Man, that was hard!

Answer 1

Yay! I grew up in Seattle! Anyway...the longest I've gone without power was about two weeks in 2004 after the hurricanes here in Florida. I know how hard it is in both cold and hot weather, glad to hear it! :)

Answer 2

Three days in the winter. No electricity, therefore no furnace and no heat. Phone died after 8 hours. You could see your breath in the house the whole time. Snow drifts were too deep to go anywhere in the car.

Made hot coffee and soup in the fondue pot.

We now have a gas fireflace that doesn't need electricity

Answer 3

Whoa, thats tough! I went 16 hours without power due to an earthquake and a bunch of morons down at the electric company...

Answer 4

2 days

Answer 5

I live in the Caribbean and sometimes we get hurricanes. In 2004 Hurricane Ivan passed over Jamaica and I was without power for approximately 8 days.

Answer 6

In Toronto, Ontario, we had a blackout for 2 days in August 2003. It was really bad, gas prices skyrocketed the day after when the power came back. It was like a dollar per litre and the lines were INSANE! Me and hubby waited in line for nearly 2.5 hours!!!!

Answer 7

3 days...it was the longest of all the daily power failures we get (usually we have no power for 4 to 5 hours a day) in nicaragua (central america)

Answer 8

7 days in 2004 during a hurricane. The bad thing about it was I lived in an apartment and none of us had lights, but the people who lived in houses across the street did.

Answer 9

Electric - four days. Phone - about 2 weeks (tornado May 1996).

Answer 10

24 hours