I was woken up this morning to the sound of my hot water dispenser singing a melody to let me know it had finished boiling the water inside it. Normally, I have that featured turned off, so I instantly knew that sometime while I slept, the power had gone off and wiped the dispenser’s memory. Then sometime even later, the power returned and then caused the dispenser to boil the water and sing a tune.
My suspicions were further reinforced by the fact that all my lights were on all over my apartment. Most of the lights in my place are controlled by the Internet, so when they lose power and then get it back, they default to the “on” state. I had no idea why the power went out but I still had lots of time to sleep, so I grabbed my phone to turn off all the lights again.
When it was actually time for me to wake up, the power was still on, which was great because I had a Zoom meeting as my first thing to do after rising. Then around 12:30pm, the power went out again for about a minute and then came back on. It’s been stable since then.
I checked the Twitter account for my municipality and while they mentioned the outage, there wasn’t a cause listed. Power outages are very rare in my area of town. On my street there are no power lines on poles anymore as all power is now routed underground. Maybe a rat bit a line somewhere in an electrical vault.