This year I had a black out for like eight hours and me and my roomate had to stay up til 2am when the power came back on because we needed to set our alarm clocks. Then one time during the night we lost power (thus alarm clocks). Thankfully my roommate woke up on her own. I had a final that day and she had work.

It has been irking me that we lose our power without notice. I mean our lines are underground for pete's sake! If they are going to work on them, give us a bit of advance notice.