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The first was 26 hours, the second, 30 hours long. About 10 hours in between. Both preemptive by the power company for wind speed expectations >100 mph. 107 mph was recorded just north of me by about two miles.

At least we have a gas stove, and a gas fireplace that can be used without electricity. It was world ending for kid who had never had to deal with a power outage for more than 15 minutes before.

It was kind of fun for me though. Reading by literal candlelight, snuggling under lots of blankets (furnace requires power to run). Crappy coffee, confused dogs.

Back to "normal" now it seems. First world problems.

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[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

We're in northern Ontario in Canada and over the years we've had power go out. A few times it lasted more than a few hours ... it was then I realized, I needed something to heat food and water. I do a lot of camping but we have so much wood in the north that I don't use small bottle camp stoves ... when you get out in the bush here, if you know what you are doing and are comfortable with it, it's relatively easy to just build a quick fire. I grew up in the bush with my family and it's just normal for me to just build a fire.

But when you live in a town, it's kind of hard to make a fire in your backyard. So the best solution was to have a barbecue with a side burner ... I recommend it to everyone I meet who is thinking of buying a new barbecue ... it's a survival tool when the power goes out.