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[ SECRET POST #4563 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4563 ⌋

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As big or as small of a thing as you want.

Had a cold shower. No hot water. Pure cold. It was during the heatwave. I thought I would end up flinching and uncomfortable but it was such a good life.

Growing up in the Philippines, the heaters for the shower were separate from the water. So whenever the power went out, those went out. If the power was out in the morning, we had cold showers. Actually, on really hot days not the worst thing ever.

Hmmm, I thought that was normal? I live in the southern US, and I'm pretty sure that's the way it is here. If the power is out for an extended amount of time, then whenever whatever hot water is in the water tank is gone, it's going to be cold, because the water heater requires electricity to heat the water. I can't imagine a way for the power to go out but the water heater still works unless everyone has their own generator powering their water heater, which I've never heard of.

Hmmmm. I don't know that I've never noticed it? I mean, here we have hot and cold taps as opposed to where I grew up where there were only cold taps and then a separate heater unit inside the shower. Come to think of it, though, I don't know if I've ever showered here when the power has been out. I guess it was just out a lot more often growing up.

ayrt

Now I'm even more confused. Where I live, the sink has hot and cold, and then the shower has and cold. Do you mean the heater was like a box on the wall or something inside the shower itself, and the sink just had cold water?

My water heater is in a closet, and the pipes connect it to the bathroom sink, the shower, and the kitchen sink. If the power goes out, you will have warm water for awhile, until what's in the tank runs out (or I guess, if you wait several days, the water that's already in the tank would get cold because there's nothing keeping it warm, and the tank's insulation can only last so long).

Yup. Where I was in the Philippines, when I was growing up (don't know if things have changed now), showers had specific heaters called bagwans and otherwise water was cold.

My water heater runs on gas, although it may still require electricity to work (I know the stove and dryer do, and even if the furnace didn't, it still wouldn't work without the thermostat functioning). I've never experienced a long enough power outage in my adult life to put the hot water heater to that kind if test (I'm not in an area prone to large-scale disasters).

ayrt

Yeah, mine does too, but there's some kind of sensor or something (the guys who installed it explained it to me but I can't remember the details) that needs electricity to work.

It's happened once in my life. Electricity in our area doesn't go out frequently, either, but we'd just had a new driveway poured, and the guy who did it screwed something up and messed up our power line. It happened to be the same weekend my brother and I were both moving out of our parents' house, and my brother had worn pretty much every item of clothing he had, then waited until basically the last minute to wash all of his clothes so he could pack them. So there was all the laundry (he'd done several loads before my mom found out because she wanted to conserve hot water and he was too lazy to find a laundromat), and showers for everyone (my brother, parents and me, plus my uncle was staying with us that weekend) so the hot water ran out fairly quick. It was not fun.

Went to another country. Found a random needle that I called the police to come pick up.

Traveled to Mexico in April/May. Had never been there before.

Went to Europe.

Made homemade ant bait with borax. I had also caulked for the first time, but the ants chewed through the caulk. The store-bought bait wasn't working much, but the borax-laced simple syrup seems to have wiped out the ants overnight!

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