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power's been out for 2 days, and apparently a battery has died somewhere because my alarm keypad is making a constant high-pitched tone.

Posted by mafic Jan 17 '24, 17:20

I now also own a small generator to run the fridge and freezer, given that this is likely to happen again. extra fun because it's also high 30s (~100F) this week.

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Yuck. What caused the outage? -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 17:35 7
- rooting for the Oilers -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 17:47 1
  - I guess it does happen about as often as biblical thunderstorms, but the power went out a day earlier. -- nm - mafic Jan 17, 22:54
- a truly enormous thunderstorm. it hailed on a 40C day. -- nm - mafic Jan 17, 17:45 1
  - Oh that's fun. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 18:06
- spiders? giant spiders? poisonous spiders? kangaroos? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 17, 17:37 2
  - little outages (and sometimes fires) are often caused by possum vs. power line. -- nm - mafic Jan 17, 17:46
  - wolf bat. it's always the wolf bat. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 17:42

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power's been out for 2 days, and apparently a battery has died somewhere because my alarm keypad is making a constant high-pitched tone.

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