These People Got Us Laughing With Their Solutions To Life Without Electricity

By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
July 04, 2012; 5:17 PM
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These People Got Us Laughing With Their Solutions To Life Without Electricity

How to survive a heat wave without power

Storified by Accu Weather · Mon, Jul 02 2012 09:47:50

Have generator, will improvise. My hillbilly air conditioning. #poweroutage http://pic.twitter.com/AVCzYwPoJay Benfield

Survival mechanism: desperate request using song lyrics.

Hey I just met you, and this is crazy. But the power's out in my apartment from the storm so can we stay with you please? So call me maybe.Abby Grace

A reminder about how to live life without digital:

Tip: If power's out and device batteries dead, the square things are called books and the moving shapes are other humans.pourmecoffee

Wait, how are all of these people tweeting about losing power, without power?

STORM UPDATE: Instagram outage preventing millions from sharing photos no one cares about with people they barely know.Andy Borowitz

One man's solution:

currently following a dominion power truck around sterlingEvan
people keep telling me that countryside never lost power...i didn't know they had it in the first place?Evan
READING ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING ON WIKIPEDIA YES IT HAS COME TO THISEvan

Many people have turned to the bottle to make it through the hot days:

Power's out.. It's time to grill out with good friends and ice cold beer http://pic.twitter.com/Wq5ojAopErika Stout
Porch drinking since the power's still out. http://pic.twitter.com/l7YovHviDerrick

Others are pepping up with some old-school coffee:

Grinding #coffee when the power is out? No problem. #diymattolwell

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