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My saga of trying to sleep through a power outage

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The power went out around 11pm last night so I was woken up by the sump pump battery backup alarming that it lost wall power. Since it was raining fairly hard I went down to check on it because I hadn't yet checked the battery backup pump this year and I am a bit neurotic about sump pumps after a failed one flooded my basement. Fortunately after waiting for a few minutes it fired as expected. Grumbled a bit and then tried to go back to bed. Dog needed to go out so back downstairs to let her out and then had to dry her off. Back to bed again. About 50min later the security system started chirping that it had lost power. Back downstairs to squint at the panel and try to remember how to silence the alert. Then back to sleep. 45min later a smoke detector started chirping that it's battery needed to be replaced. I swore then got up and stood under the master bedroom one and, sure enough, that was the one that needed to be replaced. Vaulted ceiling though so down to the garage to get the heavier Little Giant ladder so I could reach the smoke detector. Replaced the battery and went back to bed. Sometime later I was woken up again by more smoke alarm chirping. My swearing was a bit more involved this time as I went to stand under progressive smoke detectors till I found that one that needed a new battery. Fortunately I could reach this one without difficulty. Back to bed again. 6am rolls around and the power came back on. I can tell because the lights in the bedroom are at full luminosity waking me up. Apparently the IoT lightbulbs don't retain the app "off" setting if the power goes out and come back on full force when power is restored. I fumbled for my cellphone before I remember the network will take a couple min to start backup so I get up and turn off the ceiling fan\lights at the wall switch. Back to bed again...
 
I sleep most of the time with a low-volume white noise generator (sounds like a quiet AC running) so I wake up if the power goes out. Also after a while falling asleep without the "static" sound in the background becomes more difficult and I'm awoken more easily.

And while not quite at the level of a good Nuclear-Ned saga (too short!) this post still got a couple of serious lol's!

Nice! 😀
 
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I can't sleep in silence. My 'white noise generator' is a nearly endless list of music that runs 24 hours a day, every day. I need juice for that since the laptop it runs from is over 10 years old and will only run on battery for an hour at most. Then of course are the various beepers and chirpers on things all over the house that commence to makin' a racket when the juice goes out.

My solution was to spend a few grand I don't really have to install a 16KW standby generator and automatic transfer switch.



'Course I guess that means we won't have any more power outages, don't it?
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
I can't sleep in silence. My 'white noise generator' is a nearly endless list of music that runs 24 hours a day, every day. I need juice for that since the laptop it runs from is over 10 years old and will only run on battery for an hour at most. Then of course are the various beepers and chirpers on things all over the house that commence to makin' a racket when the juice goes out.

My solution was to spend a few grand I don't really have to install a 16KW standby generator and automatic transfer switch.



'Course I guess that means we won't have any more power outages, don't it?
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My backup phone is a Moto G7 power w/5000 mAh battery which will play music for at least 18 hours straight. Left it playing by mistake once shortly after I got it & that's where I found it the next day when I got home .... WITH 24% battery left!

😀

For a bottom-feeder model phone that thing isn't bad at all! (even has stereo spkrs!)
 
I can only sleep with Gotterdammerung playing loudly outside my house. Good thing our houses have decent insulation. And the neighbours don't have guns.
 
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