About 10 days after a hurricane.
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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.
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.
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.
kagis
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.
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
1.5 days
one day.
Week long camping trips mostly.
Otherwise, I was alive during the coal miners' strikes in the 1970s in the UK which lead to widespread powercuts on a regular basis but I don't remember them myself. Though I do remember that my parents always kept some candles and a couple of oil lanterns around the house.
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...
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.
Electricity, yes.