Dear Editor,

On Monday Ingrid and I were awakened by our smoke alarms at about 1:00 am; we looked around for smoke or fire but everything checked O.K. We thought that perhaps the batteries were low and the next day, Tuesday, we replaced them with fresh ones.

During the day everything worked fine; but around 1:00 am the alarms went off again; we looked all over the house once more and found no problem. We even wondered if the Poltergeists were playing a trick on us; but apparently there is a logical explanation for these mishaps.

The next day, Wednesday we googled in search of an answer to our problem and found out that the culprit could be the solar flares. In Florida they had many more; they were also in Australia and New Zealand.

Has anyone had the same experience on the islands?

George Karnikis