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No broadband for an extended period of time would be nightmare fuel for sure.

You gave me nightmares before bed.

Just other day I had multiple multi tens of seconds of failed internet... It was horrible...

Eh, having no power in the middle of winter would be worse.

Be grateful you still have electiricty or running water
Edit:
For context I once had to endure weeks without electricity.
Had to charge everything including phone, tablet and lamps & torches at a friends house so I wouldn't be in total darkness.
Also no hot water 🥶

I had a similar experience. Few days ago I registered after waking up that all smart home functions weren't available. Which was quite inconvenient, as the two hottest days of the heatwave came up. And without smart functions I couldn't use every available countermeasure to make the experience more endurable inside.

Long story short, after multiple telcom technicians working on it, they finally figured out that the problem was in distributor box down the road.
Positive: My internet connection now is more than twice as fast as previously.
Negative: We suffered during the two hottest days of the year, so far. And we could have had faster internet and no issues, if the telecom provider had already figured out the cause two years ago when we had similar issues. Instead they sent nobody to test it and simply decided that downgrading our internet connection was a great solution too.

There was a temporary blackout in my country, Spain of a few hours.

So the whole country just went out, talked to random people in the streets, read books, walked around, met with friends, went to a bars to chat, etc.

It was nice, actually.