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.
We’ve had a couple long outages. It’s especially an issue for us, as we’re on a well, so if the power is out we also have no water.
We have a generator with a transfer switch that will run the pump and water heater and some other things (fridge, freezer, pellet stove, lights, etc), but not the main heat or air conditioning. But we also have an RV, so if we can get water from the house, we can use the RV as a lifeboat, running the air conditioner or furnace. The fridge in it runs off electricity or propane. We’ve done that a few times, mostly in our previous house - we haven’t run into a long enough outage at this house to need to do that yet. (I suspect they know we’re on wells in this area, so we have some priority in getting power restored.)
It really sucks, I know.