Ice storm of 2004, we didn’t have power for 13 days, 10 of those days the road conditions were so bad that we couldn’t get off the farm.
We had switched over to gas heat about 5 years before and didn’t have a wood burner anymore so we had to resort to boiling pots of snow on the gas stove to keep the house above freezing.
The whole family slept in the downstairs living room adjacent to the kitchen with the gas stove in our sleeping bags and camping gear to stay warm.
On day 10 when the roads were accessible again we went to town but most places were still closed in the ones that weren’t were picked pretty clean.
We we’re able to find kerosene for the kerosene heaters and kept the house a little warmer for the next three days until the power came back on.

Huge tree fell across our one lane road in the mountains when I was growing up. We had a big snow storm and we got something like 6 feet of snow in two days.

Thankfully everyone out there had wood stoves for heat. Plenty of fresh snow to melt for water. After the snowing stopped everyone trapped behind the fallen tree worked together to cut the trees and get it off the road. It was a pretty big pine tree so it took like 15 people with several chainsaws all day to get it cut apart and off the road.

Still took like a week for a plow to come out and make the road clear enough for the power and telephone people to come out and fix it up for us.

I’ll never forget how unbelievably dead silent it was when I was laying there in 5+ feet of fresh powder. Because the power lines were down there wasn’t even that faint buzz/hum of electricity that you don’t usually notice but it’s always there. Absolute pure silence. You could hear your own heart beating and every little sound your clothing made when you did so much as even breath.

Truthfully I loved that week. The whole family slept in the living room by the fireplace. We had candles around at night since we didn’t have a ton of flashlights and batteries. My mom would send me brother out to get snow with the biggest pot she had. We would like it as high as we could while still being able to carry it. It would melt down to like half the pot haha. We cooked on the wood stove which took some adjustments. I think my mom treind to make spaghetti squash by wrapping a whole squash in foil and tossing inside the fire place on the red hot coals. Ended up burning it pretty badly but we had fun anyway. Played lots of board games and just kinda hung out as a family. Went on some hikes to see what our usual paths looked like with so much snow on them.

10/10 would get snowed in again.

2 years. Lived in a village of about 400 people in West Africa.

maybe a day but our heat is eletric so its a big deal. luckily never in winter so far but that one time was fall and cold enough to be worried.

A few days. A windstorm came and knocked everything out several years ago now. A decade?? We were still among the first to get it back here because there’s an emergency service nearby.

I was in Houston for Freezageddon. I was without power for 4 days and nights. Luckily I had a gas fire place and didn’t freeze.

10 days after an ice storm.

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Somewhere on the longer side of a few hours. Just casual third world country things.

9 days due to a hurricane. Internet was out for another 5. I also use a CPAP to sleep, so I was mostly awake until we got our generator working on day 3.

Something like four days, the state used to get a lot of power from a neighbouring one and they cut us off (not maliciously).

Then they built the (at the time) biggest lithium ion battery in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve

After the power company (PG&E) got blamed and sued for some big fires that destroyed entire neighborhoods in 2017, they got salty and decided to cut power whenever there were high winds predicted during red flag (high fire risk) days. The worst one was 15 days. I’m on a well with an electric pump, so there was no water for those days either.

Also, I lived off grid for about four years with only enough solar to either charge a phone (no service though) or run a light bulb in the evening. I did go to town to check my email and read the news every week or so.

I spent the first 2 years of my life with no electricity. But i dont remember that part, so it hardly counts.

Since then, I camped often. Sometimes for weeks. Longest consecutive was about a month in the Uintas.

Longest with no electricity at home was 10 days due to a winter storm taking down lines all over. We didnt have a generator at the time.

Worst though, was no electricity at home with an infant, in the winter. That only went two days and one night, but it felt like eternity.

7~8 days while camping (boy scout winter camp).

1~2 during a bad power outage.