So, it was a fairly normal Friday afternoon. Seemed a little windy outside, but all in all, a fairly normal work day. Wind in Wellington is as normal as sand in the Sahara. We finished up at a normalish time, sometime after 4 and went home. As we approached the house, I clicked the button so that the handy electric garage door would open and we could drive in and park, as normal. Nothing happened. Very strange, but we've had power cuts before so I thought it was probably just something like that. I parked outside, and we went in to investigate. Sure enough, there was no power. I went to the switch board : two of the trips had been.... er... tripped? Anyway, I clicked them back, and the lights came back on. Nice one! But our joy was short lived. As we made our way into the house we noticed a few things. The security system's little control panel was blank. It's got a battery backup, so this was surprising. In previous power cuts, it usually flashed &qu
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