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ZombieMastodon t1_iy2gwij wrote

Brother in law literally just told me a story at thanksgiving about this. Apparently he got in trouble and was grounded to his room (basement) and as the countdown was happening, his cousin was listening and giving him hand signals. When the countdown hit zero, he tripped the main breaker, and cut to the power to the whole house. What’s more is, his grandfather was a HUGE believer in the Y2k thing and stayed home that night but called his daughter who was also attending the party, so obviously since it was ‘99 they were talking on a lan line and it cut out at midnight with the rest of the power. Everyone freaked out and some cried for a good 10 minutes until they noticed the neighbors power was still on by looking out the window.

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grogling5231 t1_iy2iglb wrote

Must have been on a cordless phone as power being cut wouldn't make a regular land-line phone go out.

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