It is getting harder to make time for this kind of time wasting since the uni session is really getting going... Never the less some topics are interesting enough (and I have more spare time on wednesdays than any other day) to make it worth my while.
Thunderstorm arrives, power outage! How do you occupy your time?
Fun times... First off I am guessing that this is wanting me to think after dark power out. You realise thunderstorms are often an afternoon event and excepting for gloom you could get away with continuing to do any number of activities except computer/playstation/wii/television etc... Some would say it is going back to the dark ages (hahah... oh i crack myself up sometimes).
Never the less your run of the mill power outage which occurs somewhere between 6-9 at night (i'm going to be honest and say that after about 9 at night you simply go to bed and assume all power will be restored come morning). I am thankfully not one of those poor soles cursed with an intense fear of storms. It is amazing how many people get antsy when the thunder starts rolling and I am talking about adults here.
Now I am pretty sure a previous era of human would suggest going for the candles as a first option. Not anymore. That is why everybody has a mobile phone isn't it? Sure if you do happen to have some industrial candles lying around it might be nice for some more long term light but most of those bidly decorative ones i don't think are worth the effort.
Lets not get the opinion I am not a fan of light though. I am a real big fan of light... and I have a sizeable dislike for the dark. I don't generally go so far as to use the word fear. After all 5 year olds have a fear of the dark. It just makes me even more jumpy than usual and yes I do (when I am outside) feel the need to check over my shoulder every few steps. I am fine in most peoples and certainly my own room.
But before I digress too far. Occupying my time. Well I could get my sound powered home phone out and ring one of my other friends who still also has one (whether you use it as your main phone or as an emergency phone) and laugh about all our friends with digital phones who are now cut off... Well I am guessing their mobiles still work... Well that ruins my fun now doesn't it.
Basically when the lights go out. You just don't do anything. You sort of sit there thinking to yourself - are they going to come back on? When they don't you think that again and wait again... and that cycle continues for a good 15-30 seconds longer, if you really want the power back.
After this point you call out to anybody and everybody who is in the house. Just in case in the 2 seconds in which the lights when off everybody in the world except you died - who knows that is a plausible reason for a power out if you ask me. You usually group together... in the kitchen... I don't know why... probably because you are looking for those candles I already said you don't need.
After the point at which you have realised you no longer remember where the emergency candles are or simply could no longer be bothered to find the matches you now realise were not kept with said emergency candles, you just talk. If the storms a good one you sit by a window and watch it for a bit. But generally though it depends on the people specifically but they give up small talk and random chatter and go their separate ways (very very slowly) to bed. Probably getting lost at least once on the way.
So in the most general sense - when the power goes out.... I go to bed!
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