Geneseo1911
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Late to the discussion, but....
I live in an old "four square" farmhouse. Four bedrooms up, four rooms down, with a central staircase. I have a good, monitored alarm system. I thought all was well.
Cue 2AM alarm #1: I had left my main defensive gun downstairs after cleaning it and all I had was an unloaded .22 single action revolver. Boy did I feel stupid. Look downstairs & see a shadow in the kitchen (kitchen light is on 24/7). Now feeling REALLY stupid. My wife goes to round up the girls and discovers the 4YO is missing....she is the shadow downstairs. Thank God. Solution....don't leave gun downstairs, put a backup in the drawer JIC.
Cue 2AM alarm #2: Girls are in bed. I have my AR, mounted light, red dot, GTG. Police response is 20 min out here, don't really want to sit with alarm going off that long and have police respond for a false alarm, so I decide against my better judgement to check out downstairs. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I realized I would have to walk in to one of two rooms with NO IDEA what could be behind the corner. I listened for a while, although with the siren going, there wasn't anything to hear.
Turned out to be a false alarm, cold air coming through the window tripped the temp diff., and the ceiling fan tripped the motion. Police still responded no code as I was getting back into bed.
I think the solution is cameras. I have a touchpad control panel in the stairwell that will display cameras, so a couple pointed in the right places would eliminate the blind spots and allow me to check doors and windows without having to expose myself.
Seems like it always takes a few failures to get to the correct solution. I'm glad the failures are false alarms and not actually BG's.
I live in an old "four square" farmhouse. Four bedrooms up, four rooms down, with a central staircase. I have a good, monitored alarm system. I thought all was well.
Cue 2AM alarm #1: I had left my main defensive gun downstairs after cleaning it and all I had was an unloaded .22 single action revolver. Boy did I feel stupid. Look downstairs & see a shadow in the kitchen (kitchen light is on 24/7). Now feeling REALLY stupid. My wife goes to round up the girls and discovers the 4YO is missing....she is the shadow downstairs. Thank God. Solution....don't leave gun downstairs, put a backup in the drawer JIC.
Cue 2AM alarm #2: Girls are in bed. I have my AR, mounted light, red dot, GTG. Police response is 20 min out here, don't really want to sit with alarm going off that long and have police respond for a false alarm, so I decide against my better judgement to check out downstairs. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I realized I would have to walk in to one of two rooms with NO IDEA what could be behind the corner. I listened for a while, although with the siren going, there wasn't anything to hear.
Turned out to be a false alarm, cold air coming through the window tripped the temp diff., and the ceiling fan tripped the motion. Police still responded no code as I was getting back into bed.
I think the solution is cameras. I have a touchpad control panel in the stairwell that will display cameras, so a couple pointed in the right places would eliminate the blind spots and allow me to check doors and windows without having to expose myself.
Seems like it always takes a few failures to get to the correct solution. I'm glad the failures are false alarms and not actually BG's.