What To Do When You Don’t Have Electricity?
As I am writing this, I currently don’t have electricity – the power has gone out. So since I spend most of my time on the computer, what can I do? Luckily, I have a laptop that lasts for 2 hours (so hopefully the power will be restored by then) and I am tethering an internet connection from my mobile phone. So technically, I am just sitting at my desk pretending I am connected to my home WiFi.
So if the power doesn’t come back on my the time by the time I run out of juice on my laptop? What can I do. I have no gaming consoles to play, I hate reading books, I am home by myself with no one to talk to. It’s wet, windy and raining outside.
So I Googled “Things To Do When You Don’t Have Electicity” and found this blog post. Let’s go through it:
- Read a book – I hate reading so that’s not going to happen. I could always read the newspaper that’s sitting on the kitchen table
- Clean your room – well I have already done that. I always seem to clean my room when I am in exam periods because I can’t be bothered studying and I know I can’t waste my time on my computer – so I clean my room (and I am in the exam block now so it’s clean)
- Cook Dinner – Well it’s 11am, and I don’t like cooking, so that’s out of the question
- Catch-up on sleep – well I had 12 hours sleep the night before, so I am not that tired. Plus I want to be awake for my exams and I don’t want to upset my sleeping patterns. And I absolutely hate afternoon naps (or morning naps as it currently is)
- Round up buddies and play cricket – they have exams and it’s cold and wet outside
- Go shopping – I have no money in my wallet, plus I am out of fuel and don’t really need to buy anything
So my conclusion? When there is no electricity, you are basically doomed. I also just realised, when you are doing a degree on Internet Systems – when there is no power, theirs no job 🙁
So what did I do when the power was out? I blogged this post.
What do you do when the powers out?
🙂 light a candle and watch the flame flicker
im exactly the same way i hate reading so that wood nvr happen cant call over friendes because its wet and rainy and why would they want to be here cant go anywhere cuz cant drive {11 years old} even though i have thought about it and we cant open the fridge to eat anything and rite now im hungey so i guess ill be sitting here untill the power goes back on thanks for some ideas though
Thanks for your comment Maddy
Thanks for the advice man in 5 min earlier i didnt have electricy.And it took 20 fucking minutes man I was FREEZING like an ICE BERG man.So thanks for the advice homie 😀 😀 😀 :no-comments:
I lost power because of Hurricane Sandy. (2012) Thankfully I have it back now, but when I didn’t (it was a week or so) I suffered so much I can’t write it in detail. Luckily I went to my friend’s house for three days, but the other four days were terrible. First of all, I had no computer, which means no Internet. Aaahhh!! I am so dependent on the Internet; I just realized that. Second, I had no heat and the weather was crazy outside. (Crazy as in EXTREMELY COLD!) No TV, that sucks too, and my food was cold. I am so grateful that I have a gas stove so I could at least heat up my food a little bit, and cook. But, overall, it wasn’t the best time of my life. One week off of school, that’s great, but no power….that’s not. 🙁
Hi Ashley,
Thanks so much for telling me your story about #Sandy. In Australia, we got so much news coverage from it, and it sounded really bad. Here I thought the [url=”http://www.jackcola.org/blog/119-qld-floods-news-updates-pictures-and-videos”]Queenslands Floods[/url] where bad, but Sandy sounded much worse.
I guess this article isn’t very helpful if you have days without internet, or power. Lucky for gas!
I play board games!!!! It’s fun… I also play my phone I yeah thought so it is fun to play games on it sometimes I invite friends over when I don’t have electricity and it’s easy because we run around the house and play games sometimes I like to draw I have a computer so I have a computer so I don’t see how you blogged That without Internet connection that’s what I would do if I didn’t have connection,……. -Bella
Hi Bella,
Thanks for your comment. I wrote this post on my laptop – it still had power, then published it when it the internet came back on.
It’s great that you have friends nearby you can play games with.
I don’t like drawing, because I am terrible at it.
Hope you had a good Christmas.