A Day Without Electricity

          Hey everyone!

So I experienced something that I thought wouldn't happen for me this week. This event happened on Wednesday so I will be talking in past tense.

It was snowing, a lot, in September, where I live. I woke up at about 6:05 am that morning but I stayed in bed because I was up pretty early. My mom was already awake and she was taking a shower so I could see some light from the hallway. I was just laying in bed when all of a sudden, I didn't see anything. Everything was pitch black.

At first I was confused. What the heck just happened? I thought, but I wasn't moving. I could hear my mom trying to turn on the light switch a few times- you know the sound, that click click?- but I didn't see any light. I heard my mom continue to shower, and I just laid in bed because I had no idea what to do and I was honestly kind of scared and worried because I could barely see anything. I was like that until I heard my mom get out of the bathroom, go downstairs, and light a few candles. That was when I jumped down from my bed and went down to see what was going on. One of my sisters was already awake too so we were all in the kitchen with lit candles, asking each other about what happened.

We had a power outage. Hooray.

Buuut that didn't stop me from wanting to go to school. So, I washed my face, brushed my teeth, changed into regular clothes and ate breakfast in the dark. By then the sun outside was coming out and I could see that it snowed a lot the previous night. It was also starting to snow too. The snowflakes were very visible.

I decided to text my friends to ask them if they had a power outage like I did. Nope, none of them did... But one of my friends was already at school because try outs for volleyball were in the morning and she was going to try out. She said that our school had a power outage too. I asked her if school was still going to continue having classes. My friend said that the principal said that if it was safer to stay at home then we could stay at home. I told that to my parents and then we heard a loud snap from outside.

We dashed to a window and saw, a huge tree branch from our tree in front of our house split from the trunk. And that was when my parents said that I should stay home. I actually wasn't happy, I wanted to go to school. But I couldn't, so I stayed home for the entire day without any kind of electricity.

That means that there was no heat whatsoever in the house. The only thing that could warm me up were hoodies, socks, candles, and steamed water that we heated with this portable gas thing that we usually use to eat hot pot with. Also, we didn't have internet at all. We couldn't do laundry, use the stove, watch TV, I couldn't even print my homework with the printer and it was due the next day! So what did I do?

I actually didn't do anything interesting, really. I only slept, ate, listened to music, and played a lot of piano because that was really all I could really do. So basically I spent the day playing piano...

My family and I decided to order pizza from Pizza Hut for supper. My parents went to go get them and when they came back home we ate. We put a candle in the center of our dining table to have a little light while we ate our pizza.

When we were done, my family and I were certain that we wouldn't have electricity for the night as well so we had to dress up warmly for bed. We were disappointed, sad, agitated, and freezing. Seriously, I had two pairs of socks and those boot slippers on and my feet were still cold!

My sister wanted to get something out of the fridge. She opened it, and then like, three seconds later, the light bulb in the fridge lit up. She gasped/cried loudly. And then the whole family yelled of happiness, and I started dancing and whooping loudly..! OUR POWER WAS BACK ON!

End of story!

I just wanted to tell you about my day without electricity. I felt like sharing what happened to me on that eventful day. It actually wasn't that bad as I thought it'd be, honestly. But would I ever want to experience it again? Nope.
I hope that you enjoyed reading this! Have you ever gone a day without electricity? Especially when it was snowing?

Keep Smiling,
M-L