My brothers friend was in the countryside outside of one of the two largest cities in South Africa- I don’t remember which- and they happened to lose power at 11:59 on New Years Eve 1999, and they 100% thought it was the apocalypse for like 5 min. (There’s a chance that either my brother or his friend was just full of shit and that never happened. There’s also also a chance that my brother confused Singapore with Johannesburg, or something silly like that.)