The power has probably only been out for about 10 hours total in my 23 years of living here (3-4 power cuts lasting an hour or two, then a number of shorter ones)
Unless you live in the countryside, any power cuts here in the UK are very short lasting, or are very rare events (I believe last year there was a village relatively near me that was without power for almost a week)
I actually quite like the change of pace that occurs when there is a proper power cut in the evening... Everyone gets up and finds the nearest torch, then setting candles around and relaxing together instead of all staring at the TV (or more frequently each at separate TVs). As such in the last few years I have generally been disappointed that power cuts don't last longer. I think it's probably been over 10 years since a cut lasted more than 30 minutes.
