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Your garage door won't open in a power outage. Here's what fixes it.
The power goes out and the garage won't open (during a wildfire evacuation, an ice storm, or a summer blackout). What a battery backup actually does, and the ten-minute check that keeps you from being shut out of your own house.
By Seth Shoultes
·7 min read
