A thunderstorm rolled through early this morning. I mean really early. I was sleeping quite soundly when there was a really loud clap of thunder followed by a high pitch, tooth rattling alarm. I was out of bed heading for the weather radio figuring it was a tornado warning or something when the Wife said "It's the smoke alarm." Ten seconds or less later the alarm stopped. No fire. No tornado. Just a large clap of thunder.
I got back in bed and speculated out loud that smoke detectors use ionization and maybe a close lightning strike could interfere with the detector. Not sure when our smoke detectors became lightning detectors but at least I now know that the alarms will wake me up in an emergency.
This morning when I got up I looked around the house - everything was in order - and I looked outside to see if lightning had struck the dead tree behind our house - no.
Talking with the Wife later this morning, she says : "Don't talk to me about ionization in the middle of the night again." She's not an engineer.
Note to self: don't use "ionization of smoke detectors during lightning storms" when flirting with da ladies...
ReplyDeleteGH: Word!
ReplyDeleteseriously? I would totally have been impressed.I'm usually the one throwing out crazy vocab. Plus, your explanation would have soothed my first fear which would have been...
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So kudos to your very brave wife!
And Geekhiker, just be you. :)
Miss McC: Awe shucks. Our house is fairly young so I doubt there are any ghosts.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure she was being brave. I think she was just annoyed at me talking to her at 4:00 AM.