Anybody here ever been hit by a power cut? Welcome to the Stone Age!
We don't get them often here, the last one was about 20 years ago in the evening after dark, it only lasted an hour but I've never forgot it because I was totally unprepared, all I had was my battery-operated bike lamp, and apart from that there was no power, no light, no heating, no radio or TV, no computer,no phone, no cooking, heck not even a cup of tea, that's how bad it was!
Outside everywhere was pitch black, not a glimmer of light anywhere. (I lived in a quiet area)
And I never even had a battery radio, so the sense of total isolation, loneliness and total silence was very strong, like being thrown back into the stone age in the blink of an eye!
Since then i've prepped enough to make sure that if it happens again I've got enough items to take the shock out of it, power cuts are a 'taste of Armageddon' and I learnt my lesson well..