atari2600land's Blog - black out

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Well, when the power went out for a few seconds earlier in the day, I thought nothing of it. Then at about 9:30 last night, the power went out. this time it lasted about 2 2/3 hours. I sleep with the lights on. So when I woke up at about 9:45pm, I knew something was going on. Since I couldn't do anything electronic (which is pretty much everything), I just went back to sleep. It was cold, so I put on a long-sleeved shirt. (It was probably below freezing outside.) & went back to sleep, waiting for the electricity to come back on. At about 11:45, I woke up to this big huge noise. I thought it was New Years' fireworks, but a few seconds later, the lights and the computer came back on! Now that I knew the time, iI knew it wasn't New Years' fireworks. But 15 minutes later, I did hear them, happy to have the elecrticity and the heat back on, checked everything that was plugged in, had to reset a few clocks as well as the settings on my old CRT TV that I use for...

 

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