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2am last night, I hear this loud beeping noise. one beep every 20 seconds. I'm still half asleep. wife tells me to go investigate.
I stumble through a dark house using my phone flashlight. I immediately assume it's the smoke detector battery or something.
Grab a stool, pull it off the ceiling.
Nope that's not it.
Then I realize maybe it's the CO detector.
I go to where it normally is. It's gone. The christmas tree is plugged in instead. Took me a while to find it.
I pull it out of the socket and it beeps 4 times.
OH shit that's the CO warning. I tell my wife wake up, we gotta get out of the house.
As she turns on the light to get dressed, we realize the lights don't work.
Power's out.
CO detector beeped 4 times because I pushed the "test" button when I first checked it. The single beep was because it had no power.
Everyone's still alive, back to bed.
And that's how we survived the big north van power outage of 2025.
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