What 3 Things Would you miss the most if the lights went out?

What 3 things would you miss the most if the lights went out?
1) running water
2) hot water
3) ice

What conveniences would you miss the most?

 

Pepsi

 

News and Information
Access to new books
Air conditioning

 

1. The light, but that is offset by no alarm clock.
2. The microwave, but that is offset by barbecue.
3. The fridge, but that is offset by really big barbeque

Seriously...

1. Access to electronic information and communication
   
2. Air conditioning and refrigeration
   
3. Loss of recorded music. Screw the TV and movies, I have an amazingly good sound system and listen to music the entire time I'm working. The music I listen to when I'm not working can just about captivate me into a coma.

 

1) Information
2) Recorded music and my Pipe Organ
3) Ice and the freezer
Like BT said, it would mean I lost all my generator capabilities (4+) and things would be at the end for us!

 

Like no more power ? Or a day or two power outage ?

 

Not a damp thing I would be in heaven

 

This because aliens called Waveries come to Earth and now 'eat' the electric power?


Frederic Brown's "The Waveries". From 1945

Little SOBs killed off radio as well.

ETA
Creatures are attracted to the Earth by its radio transmissions and graze on sources of electricity forcing an overnight change to an early industrial society (steam, horse, bicycle). Fascinating and evocative story.
Mr Brown's SciFi stories are very short - many under 1000 words. A great writer almost unknown today.

 

Good question...if my lights go out, I'll be missing my solar, wind and generators...

But the lack of Internet would likely be the most missed...but not to any real degree.

 

If talking non-life threatening things.

1. Internet/information
2. Refrigeration
3. TV Documentarys
I'm a fiend for ancient history, military history, archaeology and paleontology!

 

Internet
Refrigeration
lights

 

In the summertime - Air Conditioning, it hits 112 here sometimes, (you should know that one, G)
Lights - could cause security issues
The ability to pump fuel - If the power was off for an extended period, big problem with panic

 

Depends on if the power went down from some kind of grid down attack or failure of if various electronics were damaged from something like an emp or severe solar event.
If it was normal grid down and not emp i'd wait 30 seconds for my back up generator to start!


Something more serious...
Fridge/freezer definitely.
Internet
A/C or heater blower depending on season.

 

Hmmm. Good question.
When we are at the farm, we have both mains and solar power - and generator power, now. But, we don't really use much. Lights and water pump. No internet there, yet. When we first met and stayed there, we didn't have either. Didn't bother me a bit, honestly. She would heat water by fire, for my shower. I just drank water without ice. Would take a bit of getting used to, but I could do it fairly easily.

With that said, I would miss the internet, especially coming to this forum.

 

Lack of information would be the biggest concern.
I'd like to know if the roving hoard was escaping from Detroit and heading my way.

We recently had a big blow here in the mitten that knocked out my power for a week. So I'm going to say hot showers until I rig up an outdoor shower probably using one of the fireplace inserts and a tempering valve.

And freezer/refrigerator. Granted could use the small propane fridge in the camper trailer but eventually would resort to eat fresh / canned / smoked preserved. God I'm gonna miss a cold beer in summer. Thankfully in Michigan, if summer falls on a Saturday we have a party and then back to winter. Snow really cools the beer quite nicely.

 

freezing cold lemonade (in the summer) and blistering hot showers every morning.

 

Depends on what time of year it happened.

Summer in Texas
1. air conditioning
2. air conditioning
3. air conditioning

Winter in Texas
1. air conditioning
2. air conditioning
3. air conditioning