Power outages.
I realize I haven't been here a full year yet ... but six months in, I feel like I can speak my mind as a Floridian. And I recognize that this is only a drip of water in the whole inconvenience bucket ... and that I'll be singing a different tune if my hoped-for hurricane ever arrives (note: I'm not so much tempting fate as just wanting a story to *really* make me feel like I belong here) ... but these little blips in power throughout the day and night have me frustrated.
The length of time of each outage ... under 10 seconds (this obviously excludes that one time this summer when a nearby construction site knocked everything offline for an hour or two). Which, under normal circumstances, would be something to cheer, I recognize. But here's what happens ... the alarm system announces a temporary outage (no matter how small) ... and with these blips happening in the middle of night of late, that means I have to groggily decide if I should move the dogs so I can get out of bed and investigate the sound (all, as it turns out, for naught).
But even worse for this television addict ... the cable modem resets itself each and every time, and I lose the whole 14 day forward looking guide, which prevents me from juggling that which I'm recording against an overflowing DVR. I gots me a system ... and you're making it difficult on me.
Maybe somehow, some way ... can you fine folks at FPL figure out how to reset your system without crashing and sending miniature strokes throughout my electronic equipment? Please? Pretty please?
LOOKIE HERE ... I CAN TRACK OUTAGES IN MY STATE:
http://www.fplmaps.com/
IF THERE'S AN ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THESE, FPL IS RESPONSIBLE:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Transient-ischaemic-attack/Pages/Introduction.aspx
NOT QUITE MY PROBLEM (SINCE THE ALARM HERE IS COMCAST):
http://consumerist.com/2012/11/06/adts-nightly-1-a-m-wakeup-alarm-is-getting-tiresome/
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