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maybe a day but our heat is eletric so its a big deal. luckily never in winter so far but that one time was fall and cold enough to be worried.
I've never had any real power.
If you mean electricity: 3 days. Was having to buy bags of ice to keep my fridge cold because it was cheaper than having to replace all the food that would have spoiled if I hadn't. At least it was in a time where smartphones existed and I can charge it from my car, otherwise I would have been bored as fuck.
You could always keep food preserved how ancient peoples did. For instance, Romans would build ditches and store their food in, and some people would keep it preserved by having smoke flow over it 24/7. The need for refrigeration is surprisingly modern even if only because the other methods can be a piece of work.
Electrical? About 20 minutes. For this country, outages are rare, and this mayor one made the national evening news.
Honestly, probably not longer than a weekend. And even that was due to being at a festival, not because of any outage. I can't remember an outage longer than an hour tbh
Intentionally, 9 or 10 days - the longest camping trip I've been on (long ago).
Unintentionally, about 30 hours. I've been quite lucky.
About 10 days after a hurricane.
A few days. A windstorm came and knocked everything out several years ago now. A decade?? We were still among the first to get it back here because there's an emergency service nearby.
3.5 days, and since i got a well, also no water
Isn't there some system that one can run with a well where there's an elevated tank, and the pump just fills the tank and then it's gravity that provides the pressure? Kinda like a one-house water tower. I was looking at those for solar powered houses, to deal with intermittent power, way to shift time of energy use. But I'd think that it'd also work for outages.
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One such example:
https://www.rpssolarpumps.com/solar-pump-diagrams/tppwatersecure-hybrid-system-using-gravity-tank/
They do talk about having a "booster pump" to boost pressure if the tank can't be located high enough. I imagine that that wouldn't work in an outage, so probably water pressure would be low if one doesn't have the geography.
A weekend. Our power got cut off on a Friday morning and they could only send someone out to reconnect it on Monday evening. Monday was also the start of a week-long hospital stay for me which was inconvenient...
Our power was out for a week after a major storm in the area, but we got a generator about halfway through so it was really only three or four days.
Edit: When I was a kid my mom worked at a summer camp for two months out of the year and I came along too, there were only two buildings there with electricity.
15 billion years [1] before I was born
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age of the universe according to the Big Bang theory
Can't tell if it's a joke question, a questions about having agency over your life/others', or if it's specifically about having access to electricity. And at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Based on the responses, they don't clear it up at all.
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