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I wasn't originally born in the States, but where I came from we used to have power outages many times during the day. We usually got used to it so it didn't bother us when the lights went out. But today we just had a huge windstorm (I live in Washington state) and our electricity went out for an hour. I swear, there was almost NOTHING for me to do. I couldn't cook food, couldn't go on the internet, couldn't game, couldn't watch TV, hate reading, couldn't go out because our garage door is electric, and didn't want to shower because our water heater turned off too. It's scary how reliant we are on electricity, and I pretty much sat and did nothing. So I'm wondering, what do you peeps do when the electricity goes out?