• Landless2029@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must’ve been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.

    So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again…

    I don’t remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.

    If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.