14 hour outage yesterday and I learned a lot about our house
Power went out around 3pm and didn't come back until 5am. Some things I learned:
Our sump pump alarm goes off the SECOND power drops. That was fun at 3am.
The house hit 84F by 9pm without AC. Opening windows barely helped because there was no breeze.
I had a battery station on the fridge (Anker Solix S2000) so the food was fine but everything else was chaos. No AC, no lights upstairs, had to dig out candles I haven't touched in years.
The biggest surprise: how fast cell service got congested. Couldn't load anything on my phone after about an hour because I assume everyone in the neighborhood was on mobile data. Glad I had the router on the battery too or I would've had zero internet.
Anyone else feel like outages expose every weakness in your house at once?