Lights Out

Today at Auqarobics I found out what happens if the lights go out while we are in the pool.  From time to time, I've thought about this because there's no natural light in that area.  I saw that there are emergency lights all around the room so, I knew that there was a back up system, but still I wondered what it would be like. Today I found out.

At first the ventilation shut down.  It is so noisy that we were all a little relieved when it shut down.  It was so quiet. We could hear our instructor without her shouting. We knew it was temporary so it was OK.  We do, after all, really need the ventilation.  It came back on for a while and our quiet was gone.

But then in a few minutes, the ventilation was off again and then the lights blinked out.  All the little back up lights came on instantly and though it was dim light, it was adequate.  When the electric came back on, the halogyn lights didn't come on but we had enough light from the hallway and a few auxiliary lights in the room itself.  We didn't know what had happened to the electricity.

At home, I discovered that some of our electrical circuits had blinked off for a short time, but it seems that not everything was affected.  I wonder what happened this morning to make our electricity blink out for a few seconds.

Posted by: NJ on 2/28/2005 2:24:05 PM , 2 comments