Alarms!!!!

Amy found the greatest call alarm for Mom.  She wears a disc around her neck and it has a button on it and when she pushes it,  it sounds a chime on a receiver that I keep by me.

That is one alarm.

The second alarm is the new motion detector lights that we had installed.  However, the electricians did not adjust the detector ~ so the detector light would go off and blink like crazy, but it was getting dark, so we left it until tomorrow.

That night, at about 1am, Mom's alarm to me went off and I jumped out of bed and rushed downstairs.  There is Mom sitting on the edge of the bed.  She said "Don't worry, I am not on the floor, but the light is flashing so much that I wanted to call the police.  Someone must be trying to break in."

The motion detection light.  I helped Mom back in bed and reminded her that she should ALWAYS get me or Amy BEFORE she calls 911. 

And, Amy fixed the motion detector light in the morning.

Last night, it started to rain.  No one knew it was going to rain and it poured.  I got Mom in bed and figured she would sleep good with the rain.

Nope.  Sometime in the night, the rain escalated (we ended up with 4 inches of rain fall) and a flash flood warning was issued over the television.  Since she keeps the TV on, the alarm woke her up, she told me it said "To Get Up and Get OUT!"  

Luckily, she didn't push her alarm to get me up to tell me to GET OUT!

I am not sure why, but I am grateful.  I reminded her the house sits high and that we would have to get a lot more that 4 inches of rain before it would flood.  

I guess I ought to get out the batteries, the next alarms to go off will probably be the smoke alarms.

Love, Leslie