That sucks!
I live fairly safe here - power outages are exceedingly rare in urban Germany. It is even rarer for the telephone landlines to go down, because they have a completely different power net and voltage. Besides, even if my nearest transformer were to go down, there'd be a re-router kicking in to supply us from a different part of the net.
But if it ever should happen here, I guess I'd be woken by the UPS alarm going off. Hmmm. Then again, that might not happen as the backup batteries are long overdue replacement - however, as I have now retired and no longer work with my PC, that isn't likely to happen any more
Still, reading this thread has served to remind me just how truly rich some of us are; the last power failure I experienced was 17 or 18 years ago, in Greece. I was day-boss at an Internet Café at the time and we had 10 UPS in place plus a modestly large (and noisy) (and expensive) petrol generator out back. A recent visit to a local D-i-Y home store was a surprise too - a modern Honda or Briggs and Stratton powered generator is almost cheaper than a quality UPS with a half hour backup battery.
Times they sure are a changing!
...and remember, electricity doesn't come out of a hole in the wall. Er... oh, it does?