>My power came back on 40 minutes ago. 48 hours and 7 minutes after it went out. My advice... avoid the adventure.
Well, if you think power is bad, try not having water for a week! 3 or 4 Christmases ago the water main of our complex broke, and it took a week to fix, two days into it and we checked-in into a hotel, and such was our luck that the next night our car was half buried in snow in the hotel's parking lot! Ah, the memories :)
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