QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Apr 6 2017, 12:08 AM)

Aww man. Khajiit hates power outages! Hurricane Katrina was a high Cat 1/low Cat 2 when it hit where this one lives (Khajiit lives several hours from the Gulf Coast). We were without power for 3 days, and this was a short time compared to some others Khajiit knows.
I'm back in action. It's too early to be up for the day, and breaks my Cardinal rule of never turning on the computer before 0330, but what can a fellow do? The outage messed with my already pathetic sleep pattern, so that I nodded off a bit earlier than usual. I got in maybe 3 1/2 to 4 hrs sleep, waking circa 0025 to restored electricity. That being an all too normal amount of shuteye for me, I soon realized I was awake for the duration, like it or not. Until fairly recently I would have read in bed until 0330. Nowadays neck and shoulders pain make it uncomfortable to stay abed any great length of time. So here I am.
(Neck & shoulder pain normally takes some time to become overly annoying. I therefore usually get in a decent reading session before nodding off each evening, and get in shorter sessions throughout the day. But when I wake mornings, after a night's sleep, discomfort can be (but isn't always) too advanced to remain abed long.)
Longest period without electricity for me occurred 2009 (?) following a severe ice storm that hit the night leading into my birthday. Was without power five or six days, in super cold weather. My brother, who lives in a town about 10 miles away, did without several days longer. Some folk, out in the sticks, were without for weeks. What saved me that first day was owning a waterbed at the time. I kept its heat pretty high. That let stay in bed, extra blankets above me, and remain comfortably warm. (This predates neck & shoulder issues.) The situation reversed next day. The mattress lost its heat and became a bed of ice-cold water. I was saved yet again when a then neighbor, leaving to stay with relatives in an unaffected area, let me sleep on a mattress plopped down in front of their generator driven faux living room fireplace. That saw in through the outage. I'd have been OK in any case. As I earned a bit later, my town converted our senior center into a generator powered shelter, with cots for those who needed them, and cheap breakfast, which I availed myself of several times.