Several months ago, our power supplier in our semi-rural Northern Ohio=20
area went partial smart grid. We have the remote metering, but they did=20
not install the equipment to control our equipment. Recently we had a=20
brief outage due to a car colliding with a utility pole a mile away at 4=20
AM, on our loop (5 miles) that is 3 miles from the substation. Weather=20
not a factor. When I went out to get the paper at 7 AM, I found our=20
garage door open. It has RF remotes. There were reports of many other=20
garage doors open and lights on that was noticed by the paper carrier on=20
a motor route. Our remote is an older generation, maybe 15 years of age.

I have reported the situation to our small rural electric supplier,=20
which claims nothing on their part could be cause. I have asked them to=20
research further. Does anyone have an explanation?  :~)
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