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Can local thunderstorms trigger smoke alarms?

We have been getting warnings of such t/s outside for days, im getting that annoying beeping in the evening and sometimes I don't hear it again for 5-8 mins. Miley was there any thunderstorms out your direction, last cool thunderstorm we had was the sheetlightning off the coast which light up the sky. Unfortunately we don't get English/Yankee lightning which actually touches the ground and bounces of metal, which I have seen with my very eyes.

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Can local thunderstorms trigger smoke alarms?

I was curious. Apparently, it can…

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-thunderstorm-trigger-fire-alarms

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You know, this might explain why the smoke alarm just beep out of nowhere, even when no smoke was present. I changed the battery then next day the storm came and it did it again. I thought the house I used to live in was haunted but I moved to be closer to the university I'm attending. We tend to get storms several times a week. It's pretty common in south since we live near the ocean.

Strangely, someone online once told me not to masturbate during the storm because the friction on my dick would attract lightning. Apparently, he/she got it from this source:

https://www.mojidelano.com/2016/08/17-year-old-girl-struck-by-lightning-while-masturbating/

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Me too. I had changed my batteries and it kept happening.

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I was really tempted to get the shotgun and blast it off the wall. Annoying little bugger!

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My gout was only giving me that option as I can only walk so far outside with no shoes, but I ignored it!

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I was wondering what the hell is this "gout" so I looked it up and yikes. That doesn't sound pleasant.

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It was scaring my dog. I'd take the batteries out of a few of them, and all would be well, things would be fine,…then all of a sudden, it would kick in from a downstairs smoke detector, out of the blue.

It absolutely never occurred to me that thunderstorms could trigger the alarms.

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Ah, they love to warn us. Or rather gleefully torture us with their continuous shrill banshee sound. The other house I moved out belongs to my roommate's parents so few months ago, after the incident I talked about in my earlier post, she disabled the fire/smoke alarm while I was at work and she wanted to have it checked so I checked. Little did I know, while I was tinkering with it and disabled it afterward, it somehow set off security alarm shortly. And boy, was it loud! Loud enough to have my roomie's dogs storm out of the bedroom to see what the hell is going on and barked at it and my roommate plugged her fingers into her ears lol. Luckily, no police show up. I'm surprised our next door neighbor didn't show up, be all annoyed and demand what is going on.

I just think that fire alarm just need to be replaced, I guess.

It absolutely never occurred to me that thunderstorms could trigger the alarms.

Same. I never thought of it that way. We thought it most likely become faulty/outdated and need a replacement. It seems the smoke alarm hasn't been replaced for decades, other than occasional battery change.

We all learn something new every day, eh? And to think we learned enough.

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Holy hell. So THAT'S what it was! I was wondering why my smoke alarms were beeping like that. Seemed so random.

"Life is tough. Get a helmet." – Candace Owens
"Not today, Satan!" – Blaire White

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We are in the atlantic so we get eastern united states/canadian and Icelandic storms, hasnt rained all day but I have gout. So i might have partial hearing loss due fever and being stoned for 4 days!
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