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Aurora Borealis · February 25, 2007, 03:56:28 PM

"Long live and prosper!"
"He's dead, Jim!"
"Resistance is futile!"
"Space, the final frontier..."

Hehehe...

I'm back! There was a huge snowstorm yesterday and I had to go without cable or internet for about 24 hours, and had to go without any electricity for 3 hours! (however I was lucky it was ONLY three hours! Could have been days! *shudders at the thought of that*) It was horrible! I was wanting to know what was going on here and the other websites I check out on a daily basis but couldn't and it was too dark to read anything but luckily I found my Gameboy and some games to pass the time and managed keep some of what was left of my sanity! ^^

Ha ha! 666th post!

Exa · February 25, 2007, 04:09:02 PM

Quote from: "Aurora Borealis"
Ha ha! 666th post!

Aurora, you can't be evil! Your avatar is too cute for being evil!

Kami-Tux · February 25, 2007, 05:37:15 PM

Oh dear... 3 hours without electricity. That already sound cruel. And no net! Great to see you survived it!

Darknight_88 · February 25, 2007, 09:02:12 PM

Quote from: "zjhentohlauedy"anyone here watch HEROES?

Nope. Not being broadcasted here, until march. Same goes for Lost 3rd season -_-.

Will probably try out Heroes, and continue watching Lost.

...

ow, 3 hours without electricity.Haven't had an electricity blackout since...well, a long time. Usually, blackouts occur in summer, when the demand increases because everyone is using their air conditioners.

Useless fact: in some regions of Nicaragua (cities, not only rural areas), power blackouts can take up to 6 hours...daily

Laevatein · February 25, 2007, 09:11:29 PM

... That's gotta hurt...

Blackout record I've ever experienced: 8 Hours T_T

zjhentohlauedy · February 25, 2007, 10:20:50 PM

3 hours is still bearable..
here we had a typhoon and our internet connection got cut because of a fallen tree.
no net and electricity for about 2 weeks.
i could have killed myself!!

CaptBrenden · February 26, 2007, 12:50:33 AM

i thought aroura aready hit 666 posts o_O is it staying like that or am I thinking someone else we noticed that hit that point?

Tsubashi · February 26, 2007, 08:26:01 AM

I think that was me.

Remember, I posted but it didn't change
See Here

Kami-Tux · February 26, 2007, 08:57:31 AM

2 weeks without electricity?

that is harsh.

Aurora Borealis · February 26, 2007, 06:48:47 PM

That sure is! 2 weeks without electricity, now that's awful!

Today at lunch I asked my friends about the winter storm and how badly they got affected. One of them lost power for 3 hours like I did, one of them was completely unaffected and didn't lose power at all (lucky him!) but another of my friends lost power for 6 hours and he's a computer junkie like me!

The longest I've been in a blackout was a whole day but I managed pretty easily (luckily this was years ago, before I used a computer and/or the internet reguarly!)

zjhentohlauedy · February 26, 2007, 06:54:01 PM

it makes you wonder what would happen to all of us if all electrical things die out. ;063

Aurora Borealis · February 26, 2007, 07:09:20 PM

Civilization would go backwards! Our society is so dependent on computers and other electronics, electronic-related businesses would be sure to collapse, retail people will have to relearn how to use the abacus or do math on paper which is not as nearly as efficient as using a calculator, there'd probably be an urban-to-rural population shift, we'd have to resort to hunting again as supermarkets wouldn't be able to function anymore, exchange of information would be very limited...

And then the computer, TV and videogame junkies would go absolutely insane!

Scary thoughts!

zjhentohlauedy · February 26, 2007, 07:12:23 PM

people would be playing counterstrike on the streets, with real guns!! ;026

Tsubashi · February 26, 2007, 07:30:51 PM

The longest blackout I've experienced was two days. The longest I've gone without electricity, however, is only a couple of hours. It helps when you have rich friends who are terrified of the "Imminent Nuclear War" ^^;

Aurora Borealis-sama is right. All the worlds superpowers' economies rely so heavily on electronics, the world would be in Chaos if they all disappeared!

Darknight_88 · February 26, 2007, 07:32:09 PM

whoa, 2 weeks. That's a lot. I think there have been similar cases in the farthest areas of my city, 1 or 2 weeks, usually when there's a severe storm.
In the last blackout (around 4 or 5 hours), the thing I missed the most was...electric fans. Not really easy to sleep when there's 35Ã,Â°C and a lot of humidity in the air. Yep, that'd be it. I could survive a few days without using the computer

.... Like 1 or 2 days lol

Quote from: "Aurora Borealis"Civilization would go backwards! Our society is so dependent on computers and other electronics, electronic-related businesses would be sure to collapse, retail people will have to relearn how to use the abacus or do math on paper which is not as nearly as efficient as using a calculator, there'd probably be an urban-to-rural population shift, we'd have to resort to hunting again as supermarkets wouldn't be able to function anymore, exchange of information would be very limited...

And then the computer, TV and videogame junkies would go absolutely insane!

Scary thoughts!

Indeed, specially in developed countries and urban areas. The first consequence would be looting and civil unrest. In a long term scenario without electricity, I don't think we would resort to hunting a lot, as agriculture doesn't necessarily needs machines to do the work (yet, it would be more difficult and less productive). Warlords would appear.

and the suicide rate in japan would increase exponentially, specially in all the areas near Akihabara

ugh

Quote from: "zjhentohlauedy"people would be playing counterstrike on the streets, with real guns!! ;026

and without spawn points