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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169489) • United States 7 Nov

Did you miss me? Yesterday my student was not in school, so Bob and I went running around. We shopped at Sam's Club, and did some other things. When we got home we discovered that power had gone out for maybe less than a second....

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Love the rain, hate the thunder and lightning.

Kayla Tsukino @kaylachan (84823) • Daytona Beach, Florida 10 Jun 23

Like many, we've been dealing with a dry spell. This is the second day in a row we've had rain. Yesterday was short and sweet, but today was a full-on thunderstorm. Thankfully, our solar panels helped keep the power flowing. Kind...

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Well that was a bit odd. . .

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169489) • United States 13 Oct 22

I woke up in a start and looked at the alarm clock. It said 7:10. I like to leave the house at 7:25. Then I noticed the window unit air conditioner was on. I have drapes over it because it is too cold for a/c right now. I...

october 2022

power surge

wind advisory

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Up with a roar!!

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169489) • United States 18 Sep 22

Oh no!! my very large upright freezer has a loud roaring fan and everything is partially thawed. Fortunately most items in it are dry goods, and I have a chest freezer that is barely full, plus the freezer on top of my...

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Settle down at the back!

pgn @pgntwo (22405) • Derry, Northern Ireland 29 May 17

On this drizzly Monday, I wonder what the repercussions of the weekend of travel misery inflicted by British Airways on its customers will be. A calamitous sequence of events stemming, allegedly, from a "power surge" sometime on...

british airways

flight cancellations

power surge

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The day all the lights went out

Glen @glenniah (1197) • Mandurah, Australia 2 Mar 16

Well actually it was not so much the lights as my computer, laptop, tablet, TV and radio. It all started when I noticed the cover surrounding one of the light bulbs in the kitchen appeared to have a crack in it, plus it was very...

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What is the point

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 29 Apr 11

of a surge protector? Well, it's supposed to protect your valuable electronics from power surges, right? Aha, well the problem with my poor dead PC, apparently, is that a power surge fried the power source. Despite it being...

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