Yes you read that right. Our power grid was brought down by trees. The trees came in contact with the power lines and somehow shorted the system. I knew this was coming when a few days ago I posted about how power outages are going to occur more frequently and to protect your equipment!

Well, my equipment was protected - it wasn't until the beeping started from my UPS systems that I realized there was an outage. I would have kept some of my systems running the entire duration of the blackout (phone and internet service) except for the fact that I can't stand the annoying beep!

Next goal is to find a UPS system that's affordable with a beep that can be disabled with a switch or software configured.