About 10 minutes ago, my computer and my xbox 360 just shut off and wouldnt turn on for about 1 minute. What was also weird is that my xbox showed the 3 red lights for a minute. All the other electrical appliances in my house still stayed on. But also, at the same time i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside. I thought that this was very strange and was just wondering what might of caused it. Btw, theres no storms or anything going on but it is quite cloudy outside.
Anyone know what could of caused it?

The x360 usually 3RL's after a power surge. I don't know why car alarms would go off though

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Originally posted by zach
The x360 usually 3RL's after a power surge. I don't know why car alarms would go off though

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Maybe they're on a different circuit from the rest of appliances.

Take your pick:
A) There was an earthquake.
B) Godzilla's about outside.
C) The cars are really Transformers (more than meets the eye), and when the transformers blew your appliances could no longer operate.

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Originally posted by Volv
Take your pick:
A) There was an earthquake.
B) Godzilla's about outside.
C) The cars are really Transformers (more than meets the eye), and when the transformers blew your appliances could no longer operate.

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E) God has chosen his new "chosen one" and the chosen one isnt allowed to play games. Or drive cars.

Could be some strange build up of electrical charge in atmosphere which surged both your house and the cars outside.

it could have been a slight EMP (electro magnetic pulse), a strong enough emp can cause appliances to overload short curcit and basicly fry, so it seems to reason a weaker one, from maybe a small explosion, or perhaps a near by generator malfunctioning, or an atmospheric disturbance could cause one that will simply cause a surge on certian complex electrical devices such as computers game consols or car alarms

It was probably an electrical phantom - sucked off your 360 and PC cause they have the highest power consumption (except the refrigerator, but the freon coolant hurts them) and then ghosted through the cars setting off their motion detection alarms.

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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Originally posted by Volv
more than meets the eye

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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Originally posted by Jimbo

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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and isnt thunder the one you hear, and the lightning the one you see and the one that hits the ground?

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Lightening rarely hits the ground in England though.(it's called fork lightening, btw) We mostly have sheet lightening(just flashes across the sky)

Both thunder and lightening carry electric currents of sorts, the car wouldn't need to be hit by lightening to be set off(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.) The sheer build up of electrical charge in the atmosphere could set it off(theoretically I guess, I imagine it'd have to be a pretty large charge for it to affect the cars simply from the atmosphere) which means both lightening and thunder.

Either way I doubt you wouldn't notice a storm big enough for that happen.

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Originally posted by Jimbo

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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and isnt thunder the one you hear, and the lightning the one you see and the one that hits the ground?

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Yes


What colour were the clouds?

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Originally posted by vaccination
Lightening rarely hits the ground in England though.(it's called fork lightening, btw) We mostly have sheet lightening(just flashes across the sky)

Both thunder and lightening carry electric currents of sorts, the car wouldn't need to be hit by lightening to be set off(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.) The sheer build up of electrical charge in the atmosphere could set it off(theoretically I guess, I imagine it'd have to be a pretty large charge for it to affect the cars simply from the atmosphere) which means both lightening and thunder.

Either way I doubt you wouldn't notice a storm big enough for that happen.

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(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.)

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Originally posted by zach
The x360 usually 3RL's after a power surge. I don't know why car alarms would go off though

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Exactly what i thought. I also thought it was weird that only my computer and my xbox turned off. Nothing else in the house did.

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