I checked on the outage status with ComEd and they were all, “Outage? We don’t know anything about no outage.”
I’ll take that as confirmation that the power is back on at our house. We’re still going to have to throw out most of fridge contents, though. At least the A/C will have been running for a while before I get home.
Most alarm clocks start blinking at a certain time, and then while blinking count up … so if it says 3:45 they’ve been on for 3 hours 45 min.
Helpfull side effects of cheap electronics.