Context: Our electric went out for the whole night. It was so dark and scary.
Speaker 1: Our power went off the other night. We were without it until morning!
Speaker 2: That sucks. Do you know what caused the outage?
Speaker 1: Someone crashed into the power line I think. It was so quiet and felt pretty spooky.
Speaker 2: You don't realize how dependent we are on electricity until the lights go out.