> Several months ago, our power supplier in our semi-rural Northern Ohio
> area went partial smart grid. We have the remote metering, but they did
> not install the equipment to control our equipment. Recently we had a
> brief outage due to a car colliding with a utility pole a mile away at 4
> AM, on our loop (5 miles) that is 3 miles from the substation. Weather
> not a factor. When I went out to get the paper at 7 AM, I found our
> garage door open. It has RF remotes. There were reports of many other
> garage doors open and lights on that was noticed by the paper carrier on
> a motor route. Our remote is an older generation, maybe 15 years of age.
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> I have reported the situation to our small rural electric supplier,
> which claims nothing on their part could be cause. I have asked them to
> research further. Does anyone have an explanation?  :~)

Sounds to me like you have a garage door opener that opens the door on powe=
r up, i.e. when the power company restored the power.
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