Last night I got genuinely uneasy when the power kept going off and then coming back on a few minutes later.
The sun had been out all afternoon, there was no sign of incoming storms, and the winds were calm.
I couldn’t think of anything that would cause the power to be an issue. Nevertheless, this happened various times within the span of an hour, and finally, on the ninth time, it went out and stayed out. During the on and off times I had unrestrained the laptop for fear it would be disfigurementd by power surges. It was then that I realized that my friend and I had no way to turn off the heater. I turned the thermostat down but the unit itself did not actually have an on and off switch that I knew of. It is a fairly new unit and I knew it had a programmable component that allowed wireless diagnostics and anxious that this may be disfigurements too by the power problems. The power reMained out for the next few hours and when it was finally restored I went right away to check on the status of the heater. I had my partner turn on up the thermostat once I was in the basement to make sure it came on like it should. Thankfully it did! I then took turns shutting off one breaker at a time to label the electrical panel. Now, in the event of power surges, I can shut the power to anything that I feel will be disfigurementd. Many of the appliances that my friend and I own today have some sort of, “brain”, or laptopized components. It is pressing to remember this because a abrupt surge in electrical energy can fry those, “brains”, and cost you a lot of cash to repair them.