3 weeks after Hugo - and I was personally one whose power was out the entire 3 weeks!

We were simply ill-prepared for Hugo - we're 150 miles inland, for Pete's sake!

Hi Fred- I am so glad to see you here because I've tried sending you a text to check on you. I think the longest has been 4 days. 

As far as I know maybe a day or two after an ice storm with strong winds Fred Griffin . A LOT of power is generated in ND and I think they can redirect it as needed here. That being said some of the more rural communities and farmsteads probably have gone much much longer.

Fred,

Nothing like yours.  In Los Angeles during the riots, we had no power for 2 days.  A

Good question, curious myself. Also curious how many have backup hard-wired-in natural gas generators.

12 hours max is what I remember in the past 30 years. Since I'm in a van, the only problem I would have is when the battery dies, I now have a 2 battery system.

That is a long time, Fred!  Hope everything is well with you.

Fred, it was about 26 years ago.  Huge ice storm in the third week of March and we were without power for three or four days.  Some people out in the country were without power for 7-10 days.

Personally,  this has not happened to me. Yet. Stay safe. 

That's a bummer, Fred. I think the longest we had was in the ice storm many years ago and that was going on three days.

3-4 days after a Derecho came through here a few years or so ago. After that, we bought a whole house generator.

Nine days, just a few years ago.

Community really banded together and shared resources.

EVERYONE vowed to stay in touch and keep the meet-ups going.

No meet ups since the hurricane.

In CT, the longest I've experienced was 9-10 days. I moved my family into a B&B because at the time I did not have a Generator & it was freezing out. I remember it was hard to even find a hotel that had vacancy.

Oh wow... two weeks! I'm glad you and yours are safe. 

Just a few hours. 

We rarely have power outages from storms.  I don't recall any power outage of more than a few hours.  The last outage I had was a few weeks ago when a car hit a power pole near my home. The power was back on in less than an hour.  

Eight days and it meant no water (no showers, no bathrooms), no heat in addition to the ususal - no lights, internet, cell service (since via Microcell as we have no regular service). We installed a full-house generator since then, but after the rogue tornado we had, no gas trucks could get through due to downed trees and wires to deliver gas for the generator!

Glad to hear that your power is restored Fred Griffin .  The longest we had been out was 7 days...and after that,  we installed a whole house generator!

a few hours for me. It opened my eyes to how we take it for granted

That's terrible Fred. How are you managing? Obviously you have some type of power.... 

For me personally a couple of  hours.

I remember about 3-4 days in a freak instance. The electric co. literally forgot that our small section had no power. I bailed & took the dog to Mom's house.

Less than a day for our neighborhood but other areas of the County had been out for a week or two before.  Seems as though it sometimes depends on who your power company is. 

around 2 weeks, that winter was brutal

Two weeks...Frances, 2004 but I have friends that lost power for 2 months during Wilma in 2005.  

14 days after a tornado in 1992.  8 days on my street, but we had damage between the street and meter.

We had a stretch of nearly a week a few years ago, fortunately we have a hand pump for one of our wells and plenty of batteries and generators.

Wow! Fred Griffin So glad you are back on the power grid after the hurricane.

Here in western PA the longest I can remember is two days but most of the time the power is restored in a matter of hours. Guess I would rather deal with snow & ice rather than hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or fires.  

2004, Florida got hit with Charlie, Frances, Jean and Ivan.  We were without power for 2 weeks maybe 3. Our neighbors got together and we were cooking everything in our freezers out on our grills. That was when we bought a generator. Once Home Depot got a shipment in we ran down to get one. We wouldn’t be without one now. 

Not that long.

During the great NH Ice storm we were at 9 days. There was no generators in the state. I drove to Southern MA to find one and now I am ready for the next one. 

Ughh,,, brings back horrid memories of 2004/2005
Frances 2004- was 22 days, no elec OR water
Jeanne- ( 3 weeks later)  18 days ( and had my gallbladder removed 2 days after she came ashore)
Wilma 2005- only 8 days...  Was in Oct, so not as hot and unbearable

By the time Jeanne hit we had 2 full size generators one for the well/pump so we had water and one for house for fridge and a window AC  and a lamp

we've been a day or maybe two after a severe storm in the winter....

We've been very lucky , < 24hrs.

That is another reason alternative power source is needed. Solar panels 2-3K watts will get homes going. The new LEDs lights used less than 40% power while Life is extended to 50K hours.

I've only had two power outages in my San Diego living and both were just a few hours.

During the '89 earthquake in San Francisco we lost power for 3-5 days, I can't remember precisely.

About two weeks back in 2004 for Hurricane Frances followed by another week a month later by Hurricane Gene.

30 hours once in Palm City Florida. Less time in Ft. Myers where we were in the hospital grid!

Fred, I believe we had a 5 day outage once in Oklahoma City. Some folks had 7 days after a whopper of a storm. It was a massive ice storm.

We were out about a week after the 1989 earthquake.  

Wow, that is a long time to be without electricity.    Glad you are back in business again.   We don't lose power often, we have underground lines.

Wow, I would only say a day at the most.

So sorry about your troubles.  It's scary and inconvenient. I've been lucky as I live in a building an so far, so good.  But, my parents lost power for 2 weeks twice - once with Hurricane Sandy and once with a freak snow storm in October when all the leaves were still on the trees.  they live 25 mins from me.

Hurricane Sandy knocked out our power for 10 or 11 days.

Five days, was not ready the first time and really struggled. Now I have a generator, flashlights, coolers, ect.

One day last year.

In 2008 in the house we did not have power over 10 days in Sunny Isles Beach - condos had it.

14 hours.  after 6 hours I got out the gas generator and had the refridgerator and freezers pluged on

The most around here was around 9 or 10 hours.  Went out around noon on a super hot Sunday day (no storm issues), so I held an open house where there was AC.  Power was still out when I got home and stayed out until 9 or 10 in the evening by the time they got around to fixing our power pole.  I did bring the crews some water and sports drinks, it was hot and they were working their butts off.

Fred we don't have to deal with the huge issues all you folks on the coast have been dealing with. I feel for all of you - it's just crazy.  As for us we've probably lost power for a half day, maybe. Unless it's the dead of summer and really hot out we could deal with an outage for pretty long if that ever happened.

Wednesday through Sunday is a pretty long time! I am sure you were prepared, though. 

When we first moved to the area where we live now, a tropical storm came through and we were out for 5 days.  Ironically, we had discussed putting in a whole house generator before we moved and that caused it to get moved to the top of the priority list and get installed shortly thereafter.

Of course, once you do that, it is almost a guarantee the power will never be out that long again.  When the remnants of Michael came through here last week, a number of people lost power but should be back up midweek. Our generator ran for about 8 hours total, I guess. 

We had an ice storm when I was living away from my hometown and they were without for about 10 days I believe, maybe even 14. Before I cut down the bamboo in my backyard, we would lose some power in the wet season and it may be out a day or two.

A couple of hours. 5-6 max that I recall. It might not have been due to a storm. 

I've been lucky.  2 days is the longest I've been without.  But we did have a generator when I lived in a rural area, and we never had any major storms aside from Sandy when I lived in more urban areas.