Weird weather

Last night when I was going to bed it was raining hard outside - or that's what it sounded like. On closer inspection it turned out to be the wind making the noise - incredibly strong wind that was making a sound like it was raining hard. My first thought of course was Katrina, but at the same time I knew it wouldn't be anything that bad. When I was laying in bed I was listening to the neighbour's patio furniture making a racket on their balcony.

Next thing I know I was waking up to the smoke detector. It wasn't full on blast - it was making "little" beebs, like they do when the battery is running low - I say little, but the sound is loud enough so that sleep is impossible. Oh great - that's what I need, the smoke detector battery going flat in the middle of the night with no spare batteries. Next thing I realised was that Dragon was not in the bed - I spent next few minutes waking slowly up as the beebs continued, contemplating if I should get up and get him to check it out.

Then Dragon came from the living room to inspect the sound - turns out that electricity had been cut from our building and the smoke detector was letting us know this (it works from the main, not with batteries - although it might have some spare batteries that are running out, need to check). It was impossible to sleep and Dragon was suffering from a headache he gets with thunder - it still wasn't raining, but there was thunder and lightning further away on the mountains.

So we spent the next ten minutes or so looking out to the city - there were some emergency crews out on the street fixing something, people with flashlights. Some of the buildings around us had lights, others did not. When the electricity came back on the building next to us lost their lights. All electronic equipment slowly whirred back into action and smoke detector gave us a last loud beep before shutting up.

It took me ages to get back to sleep, and as my sleep pattern was disrupted I woke up incredibly tired in a middle of a strange dream. For some reason the heating was on full and the whole apartment was very hot - I turned heating off but nothing seemed to change.

Weather now is calm and bright like nothing had happened in the dark of the night.

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