Outage

That’s a terrible word.
Anyway, we did lose access to our electricity for an hour or two today.
The best way to determine whether it’s just you or not us to go outside and look for people out on the street peering up the road in a slightly confused manner to see if they can spot the problem. If you see them then it’s not just you and so don’t worry - you did pay the bill.
Or maybe they are outside looking at you staring up the road.