What do you do when the lights go out? The last house we lived in the electricity went out ALL the time. I mean seriously, I do not miss that house and the scheduled and unscheduled power outages. The lights were always out and once I had kids I had to make sure we had eaten before a schedule one. Of course there are unexpected things that happen all the time and the power goes out. One year we had a terrible wind storm that left most of Washington without power for a week. I remember thinking how we’d be lucky to have the power back on by Christmas. There are a few ways to be prepared, you know, batteries, candles and back up plans and it’s important to be prepared because more than likely you will be without electricity at some point in the next year.
Did You Know?
1.) On average, there are 20 million lightning strikes in the US each year, leaving hundreds of thousands in the dark, inconvenienced, and “at risk” for long periods of time.
2.) In 2009, a total of 2,470 power outages were reported in the US that kept over 30% of the nation’s households in blackout conditions for a total of 7,699 hours – or the equivalent of 321 days.
3.) According to FEMA, the use of candles in homes causes an average of 15,600 residential fires, over $120 million in property damage and loss, 150 deaths and 1,270 injuries each year.
For these reasons there is a solution to keeping your lights on as a temporary back up system. Most of the outages we had at our old house were just a few hours and if your power outage is less than 10 hours, illumaguard can help you keep your lights on. When using illumaguard make sure you let the illumaguard charge to a light for 48 hours. After you let it charge, it’s easy to use. Just turn on the the light the illumaguard is plugged into and pull out the cord. In a second, the illumaguard will provide electricity to your light for 8-10 hours. Every few hours, the amount of light will go down a bit. It loses some of its brightness. This gives it longer life allowing it to last up to 10 hours. Having the lights on when I’m home alone really helps me to feel safe. I hate the dark and I love the idea of having 8 hours of more light during a power outage. It’s also a great opportunity to go dig up the flashlights, and be able to find them without hitting your head or stumbling on toys.
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Our last power outage was March 29th.
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Our last was sometime in April…there was a big “pop” noise somewhere outside, so I’m guessing a squirrel blew a transformer or something. Luckily it was during the day, and back on within 2 hours.
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I think we may have had a blackout last summer. They are common here in the heat.
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It was about a month late morning when we had a bad thunder storm.
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Last night, but for just a moment
About a month ago was our last one. It lasted only about 6 hours, but when you have a 5 and 2 yr old screaming at you that they want the TV on, the lights on etc, its TOO LONG!!!
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Our last power outage was last summer. It only lasted a couple hrs fortunately.
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It was a week ago when bad storms moved through
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close to a year now, it never goes out when the weather is really bad, usually happens when the weather is fine. always around dark, though!
i live in michigan, it was prob 5 months ago. we have atleast 2 a month (power outages)…from storms.
Our lights went out a couple of months ago (winter storm) in the evening, when we were awake and doing needing to do things—boy this would have been handy
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After a storm, our power was out for FOUR DAYS! We’re on a well, so we also had no water, which was even worse. I thought I was going to die!
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last week it went out.
Just last weekend – we had tornado force winds and heavy rain.
We had a couple last year when we lived on Long Island.
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Just recently it lasted only a few minutes..
It was during an ice storm a few years ago and the power was out for three days.
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A really heavy snow gave us a power outage about 3 months ago.
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We live in an area that is noted for power outages and surges. The power has been off at my workplace twice in the last month.
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Our last power outsage was a week ago the day following the last round of storms in AR on the day that left so much devastation in other states, I pulled to the stop sign and though I had debris falling off my van, I oulled out to the daycare and my daughter called about 30 seconds after I had left the stop sign saying the power had just went out, about 20 mins later I came back with all the other kids only to discover a tree had fallen across the road. It wasnt debris coming off my van it was the tree crumbling which is a scary thought if I had sat there any longer that afternoon, we were without power for close to 5 hrs while they worked to cut up the old oak tree.
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We had one about 2 weeks ago since a neighbor’s tree fell and tore down two telephone poles. The electricity was back within about 6-8 hours but the cable and internet was out over a week! Painful!
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The last I remember for any length of time was a couple years ago. We were gone to visit an aunt and our teen daughter was here alone and a storm front blew in…she was scared to death! No lights, no phone other than cell. She hid in the downstairs shower with blankets all around and crying with the dog on her lap. Really, the scariest part WAS the dark! Our basement is not raised and is SO dark with limited small windows.
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It went off last Sunday, but only blinked off.
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Our last power outage was last night during a huge thunderstorm! It wasn’t out for long (less than 30 minutes) but 3 weeks ago it was out for almost 5 hours! Gotta love Florida during the rainy season!
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Our last power outage was last month. It only lasted for 10 minutes though.
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My latest power outage was 2 weeks ago during a storm . It would sure be nice to have light without candles.
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I think it was last Wednesday! We had a bad rash of storms and the power was out, but only for a few minutes. Lucky that time!
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Our last power outage was last summer during a thunder storm. This would be very nice to have! wgbc1446[at]yahoo[dot]com
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Here in Chicagoland, unexpected power outages are not all that uncommon – so we keep a lot of candles and flashlights (and batteries) around – but the Illumaguard sounds like the perfect solution and a definite “Must Have” for anyone who can’t see in the dark all that well :- )
This being Spring – the most unpredictable season here (and May being the most unpredictable month) – our last power outage was just a week ago – and it lasted for a very long four hours!
Having an Illumaguard around the house would be a real godsend.
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We haven’t had an outage since we moved to Vegas six years ago – Used to have two a year in Delaware.
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Our last major power outta was the 2009 ice storm ,we was out of power for 17 days
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OUr electricity went out about a week ago when a storm blew in.
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The last power outage was about 6 months ago….we generally have them during monsoon season…annually. 🙁
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We had a power outage a few weeks ago during a thunder storm.
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Last power outage was a few weeks ago, we was without power for over 24 hours, I am in the South where we had those nasty storms come through, thankfully we did not get much damage in this area.
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Actually our last outage was tonight during a thunder storm- the power went out twice for about 3-4 minutes each time.My PC went off in the middle of something and I was stubbling around in the dark! Everything had to be reset or rebooted- a real pain!
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The last power outage was a couple weeks ago we had a really bad storm and didn’t have power for a couple days. It sucked!
A couple or three months ago, I think someone hit a pole and the power was out for a little while. Something similar happened near my mom’s house and hers was out for nearly 24 hours! Of course, our big prep is always for hurricane season, here on the Gulf Coast. With Ivan we lost power for nearly three weeks. Katrina hit a couple hundred miles away, but we were out for about 3 days after that.
The last time we had a power outage was a couple of weeks ago with the tornado’s going through our area. 🙁
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lol our last outage was on saturday and it lasted almost 2 hours 🙁
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We have probably had six this month, none more than an hour and most for less than 15 minutes. A pain in the pootoot none the less.
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It was this past summer during the day, and it was only for a few minutes. Then, about twenty minutes later, there was another outage for a few minutes…and it wasn’t even raining.
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our last was a few years back during a big thunderstorm thank god i had candles
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Last November. It seems to be a yearly thing. Last year was only 4 days and our generator was stolen, the year before was a week. The year before that was 10 days. Not to mention all the hours and days here and there.
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Our last power outage was a few weeks ago…for no reason at all!
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about a month ago we had a bad storm and the power went out over night, we had to get ready for work in the dark, it wasn’t easy!
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Our last power outage was during our last winter. Every year, it seems our electricity goes out at least once. This would be great to still have lights, and not to worry about what’s in the refrigerator.
Last power outage was 2 weeks ago huge storm –power went out on a Saturday night around 7:00 and was still off at 11:00 when we went to bed.
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our last outage was just about a month ago when very strong thunderstorms came through our area.
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Our last power outage was last month.
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our last outage was 3 weeks ago, and lasted for 15 hrs.
Our last power outage was back in February when it was below freezing for a couple of days, when Texas was doing rolling blackouts to sustain enough power for everyone. It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had done it during the day, when it was like 40*. But they did it at like 6 in the morning, when it was like 16*.
We had 2 or 3 in our area towards the end of last year.
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Last month for about an hour.
Our last power outage was just last weekend.
Just a few days ago but it happened while I was asleep in bed.
It was about 2 weeks ago and lasted 5 hours right when the kids were getting out of school.
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My last power outage was 2-1/2 weeks ago and only lasted about an hour but there is nowhere that is immuned from it. Thank you so much for this opportunity to win.
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We had an outage last week when strong storms came through. It was at night too!
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my last power outage was when the tornado hit spring field we lost power for 3 days