Back in 1999 we had a huge storm that cut the power for millions of people across the country. Our home was not spared as a tree fell on its power line. The pow

Back in 1999 we had a huge storm that cut the power for millions of people across the country. Our home was not spared as a tree fell on its power line. The power company was completely overwhelmed by the scale of the damages plus it somehow forgot about us so that it took more than a month to get the cable repaired. Luckily our neighbor still had the electricity running so I made a short male-to-male cord to connect a normal extension cord between our two houses. I knew what I was doing but I was definitely not comfortable with such a solution! I had no idea you could actually buy such cords, I thought it would obviously be outlawed considering you can easily kill yourself if you're not careful... iirc I destroyed the cord as soon as it had served its purpose because it's a really bad idea to have such a thing at home!