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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turkeyrun" data-source="post: 4121704" data-attributes="member: 27991">They were saying, "unplug about 10,000 of those coffee pots."Not this outage, but a concern discovered in another outage.I get a call around 3am from Mom, she was 85 and middle of the night calls, though not uncommon, were scary.I awaken to a very dark house and lightning flashes. I grab the phone and Mom says, "the power is off."Me: "yes, it is, but I can't fix it. It's just lightning, no cellar needed."Mom laughs, "I know, but I fell asleep in my chair (electric, lift chair), I am reclined, need to go pee and can't get out of this damn chair."Me, "on my way."</blockquote>