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Gerianne

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power outage
« on: October 16, 2014, 04:37:49 pm »
I live near downtown Fort Myers in Florida. It seems to be a prime spot for power outages. Seventeen hundred homes lost power last night.  My computer goes nuts, but other than that all was well. I got rid of a clock that I kept having to reset. I bought a projection clock that keeps the time [Oregon Scientific Self-Setting Atomic].  My phone kept the time as well, once the power came back on.

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Re: power outage
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2014, 05:43:27 pm »
I haven't seen a power outage in about 3 month's, but it was for a transformer! 
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Re: power outage
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2014, 08:26:51 pm »
I had one last night. The rain was coming down insanely intense! Power came back on within minutes but I was studying for my midterm and all of a sudden everything was BLACK! LOL!! Next time I will keep a flash light near by. :)
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Re: power outage
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2014, 10:04:50 pm »
Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

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Re: power outage
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2014, 04:46:45 am »
We used to have power outages all the time where I live but I have to say in the last few years we have had very few. So it is getting better.

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Re: power outage
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2014, 07:56:46 am »
Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

It is a good idea when the power goes out to unplug your computer so that when the power comes back on you don't have a power surge.  We have always had surge protectors and the power had went off and then when it came back on there was a power surge and it not only fried the computer but literally caught it on fire.  Good thing I was there when it happened.  Although, all I done was started screaming for my brother. lol.  He threw it outside. :)

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Re: power outage
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2014, 10:04:01 pm »
Fortunately I've never lived in a place that had frequent power outages. We had a real bad one almost 3 years ago. We had insanely high winds and it knocked the power out for almost 14 hours. Not only that but it fried my computer.

It is a good idea when the power goes out to unplug your computer so that when the power comes back on you don't have a power surge.  We have always had surge protectors and the power had went off and then when it came back on there was a power surge and it not only fried the computer but literally caught it on fire.  Good thing I was there when it happened.  Although, all I done was started screaming for my brother. lol.  He threw it outside. :)

I did do that after the power went out. Something went on when the power went out. That's what the computer place told me it was anyway, a surge. There was nothing salvageable on there. Fortunately I back up everything I do so I wasn't too concerned about that.

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Re: power outage
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2014, 11:11:20 pm »
That sinks~especially when dinner isn't quite finished in the oven~

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Re: power outage
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2014, 03:11:32 am »
Once had one that lasted for 5 days.  I felt like I was in survival training...how to live without electricity in 5 hard lessons.

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