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It woke me up, because the fan I use for white noise turned off and also because the little carbon monoxide alarm thing we have next to the propane heater in the living room started beeping via battery backup, the same as it always does when it loses power. I still didn't bother to get out of bed until way later (i.e. about an hour ago), but I did lay there awake for a while (which is why I ended up getting up later than usual).
It seemed odd to me that our power didn't go off yesterday (aside from maybe a blip at some point before either I or my sister got up, just enough to blank out all the electric digital clocks, e.g. microwave), when the wind was blowing like crazy, or the day before that when it was raining like crazy, but it went off today, a comparatively calm, normal day.
Well, as it turns out, it was apparently part of a planned outage, an intentional "rolling blackout" or whatever, which was apparently "necessary to protect the energy grid against longer, more widespread outages." So, yeah, I guess I'd rather have a 2.5 hour outage (which was, apparently, supposed to only be a 0.5-1.0 hour outage) instead of something worse, but still...
Thanks, assholes at Duke Energy, for ruining my sleep today. (Un)fortunately, all planned family Christmas Eve activities had already been canceled due to health/safety concerns, so it's not like it messed that up. But even so, I already sleep shitty enough as it is, so what I really don't need is outside factors like this shitting it up even more.
It seemed odd to me that our power didn't go off yesterday (aside from maybe a blip at some point before either I or my sister got up, just enough to blank out all the electric digital clocks, e.g. microwave), when the wind was blowing like crazy, or the day before that when it was raining like crazy, but it went off today, a comparatively calm, normal day.
Well, as it turns out, it was apparently part of a planned outage, an intentional "rolling blackout" or whatever, which was apparently "necessary to protect the energy grid against longer, more widespread outages." So, yeah, I guess I'd rather have a 2.5 hour outage (which was, apparently, supposed to only be a 0.5-1.0 hour outage) instead of something worse, but still...
Thanks, assholes at Duke Energy, for ruining my sleep today. (Un)fortunately, all planned family Christmas Eve activities had already been canceled due to health/safety concerns, so it's not like it messed that up. But even so, I already sleep shitty enough as it is, so what I really don't need is outside factors like this shitting it up even more.
