I didnt go to bed until 2 or so, had a hard time going to sleep so it was around 3 or so when I did. 4 am I wake up from the alarm screaming its head off, my first thought was ohhhhh noooo it cant be 6 already. Then I realized that is was not my alarm clock, so it took me a couple of secs to figure out if it was the fire alarm or the house alarm. Its the fire alarm, man I got out of bed in some kind of record speed. Ran around in the house trying to figer out what was going on, in and out through all the bedrooms downstairs, then up, then down again thinking that we probably have smoke detectors in the walk in closets, but nope there is no smoke, and no fire. By now every single fire alarm in my house is screaming, think 11 fire alarms all at once 4 in the morning, THATS no good.
Whats worse is that I am the ONLY one awake, all the others are still asleep, yeees they sleep though this. I get back in the bedroom where Galahad is looking up with sleepy eyes and Chris is still snoring away, by now I am mad, making a mental note to myself never to leave the kids alone with him, they would never make it out in case there actually was a fire.
So I figured the batteries must be bad, there is a green and a red light on each and every one of the smoke detectors, guess what they were all blinking red, I didnt know if that was because they were all screaming or because ALL the batteries were bad. I had 3 9v batteries in the house, so I changed three and hoped for the best, naaaa the best didnt happen. I run up again, and grab the one I think is the "main" detector, and pull the batteri out of it and voila they all stop. 2 min later they were all screaming again. Now I am doing the !#@$^$@@%#@$!%^ by Chris's bed and he finally wakes up and says "did you change batteries" that did not make me in a better mood lol. I go to the fuse box and turn the main "thingie" off and the house goes black BUT the alarms were still screaming. Turn the main breaker on again, and they stop..........
. to start again 5 min later.
I get my butt into the car, drive to walgreens get 2 8 packs of 9 v batteries, home and when I open the car door I hear the alarms still screaming in the house. I change all the batteries and it stops ohhhhh man what wonderful silence..... for 2 min....... then it starts again.
I did loose my patience and I have now 11 smoke detectors in my house ripped out from the cables hanging from the ceiling and I have no idea what wrong with them. Chris who is trying to defend himself saying "ohhh but I had no idea what was wrong" duhhhhh neither did I. I have decided he is soooooo in the dog house today. AND I hereby declare my husband the king of all morons
Does anyone have an idea what has happened to the smoke detectors, why in the world did they stop just to start again, and why did it not help when I changed every single battery?
Sorry for long post I had to vent a bit, Chris is tired of my venting lol
Marit