57 Degrees (of freedom?)

That's currently the temperature in my house. Pretty sweet. A power line right outside my house was ravaged in of all things, a wind storm. Being that most things run on electricity, including our GAS furnace, that means that I can see my breath right about now. Shades of a couple years ago, all coming back! Although I still have hot water, at least for now.

The weird thing is, about four outlets in the house work, and I actually have a daisy-chain of extension cords running through various parts of the house, for quick access to electronic things. And lamps. Many many tiny lamps. Apparently, like 190,000 people are also having this blackout problem in my area. At least last time the 'blackout' had the decency to occur in the summer, so like I didn't go to sleep and wake up with pneumonia.

*edit: It's fixed. Huzzah.

That's currently the temperature in my house. Pretty sweet. A power line right outside my house was ravaged in of all things, a wind storm. Being that most things run on electricity, including our GAS furnace, that means that I can see my breath right about now. Shades of a couple years ago, all coming back! Although I still have hot water, at least for now.

The weird thing is, about four outlets in the house work, and I actually have a daisy-chain of extension cords running through various parts of the house, for quick access to electronic things. And lamps. Many many tiny lamps. Apparently, like 190,000 people are also having this blackout problem in my area. At least last time the 'blackout' had the decency to occur in the summer, so like I didn't go to sleep and wake up with pneumonia.

*edit: It's fixed. Huzzah.

Dude, that blows. It's hot as hell in my house right now, and I actually have the ceiling fan on.

" At least last time the 'blackout' had the decency to occur in the summer, so like I didn't go to sleep and wake up with pneumonia."

I hate power-outages. Hope all that crap gets sorted out for you and the people in your area. It's been really warm here in Indiana. Like the other people commenting, I actually had to turn the air conditioner on the other day. Without the heat on it got up to 78 degrees in my apartment.

Well it's 51 degrees now, and I bought a ceramic heater for my basement area this morning. It's probably closer to 68 down there, with that running and whatnot. It's in the 40s outside today which isn't bad, but it's also kind of strange because my house is almost the same temperature as it is out there. My mom went to a hotel to sleep there for a couple days, and I said good riddance. HOUSE PARTY! Cold house party.

Fahrenheit degrees dosent tell me anything but I´m guessing its cold. Sounds like a real bummer. Make sure you have some electricity to the things needed to watch some Porn. Keep the heat up !

Very weird.  You technically shouldn't have power at all. Sure some breakers aren't  still off?

"Fahrenheit degrees dosent tell me anything but I´m guessing its cold. Sounds like a real bummer. Make sure you have some electricity to the things needed to watch some Porn. Keep the heat up !"

Sounds really sucky those blackouts.

Reminds me of that power grid failure thing the east coast had years back. That was suck. Got to watch Jay Leno on a portable black and white TV, so I guess not all was lost.

Only a quarter of the electricity in my house is run by a circuit breaker, the rest are fuses. we have more than one line behind the house on the telephone pole, I'd say more around 6. My guess is whatever was powering the older stuff in the house, i.e. 75% of the electricity (furnace included) is the wire that is currently laying in the middle of the street with caution signs around it.

I just don't understand how the fire department of all things can just leave it there for two and a half days. They said 90% of peoples homes will be running by Wednesday, so what do I do until then? Freeze? And what if I'm the unlucky 10%? What a way to bring in the new year. Y2K simulation.

Yeah tons of people been getting their power knocked out. Odd thing is im just two streets down from ya and no power probs here.

Well, the power line went down on the street right over here, it's sort of hard to miss. They've since fixed it. But yeah three days, it was laying in the street with caution tape.