running (Hawthorndene) 33:56 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 19
Run about the 'dene with F&T, B&S, Troy after which I had to rush off to Wallaringa meeting, some of which was conducted by candlelight.
Power failures due to the strong winds were not so amusing at 2:45am when the security monitoring system rang to tell me that the fridge alarms were going off in the pharmacy department. Leaving George to clean up the wet spot where the cat had pissed on our bed (what the? She's such a scaredy-cat that she hardly ever comes inside, much less into our room; I can only think that the sound of the on call phone ringing startled her!) I nipped in to work and reset the alarms, checking that the fridges had indeed gone on to backup power and the temperature gauges were reading okay.
An hour later, I was still trying to get to sleep in the spare room bed (oh dear, it's horribly soft, and I must apologise to all our guests who have ever had to sleep on it) and the power came back on. Shortly thereafter, the phone rang again: "Your fridge alarm's going off..." so I got dressed again, hopped in the car again, and didn't even make it to the end of the street because of the sparks blowing from the tree which was catching fire in the powerlines on the corner. Went back home and while I was debating whether to ring the MFS or ETSA, the power went off, the firies turned up, and the phone rang yet again! Seems that even a couple of seconds' interruption to the power supply will trigger the alarms, before the alternate power source has time to kick in :(
I told security not to call me again when the power came back on again - but did go back in at 7am to reset the alarms again.