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by jaywalk 2145 days ago
Yes, but in this case he wouldn't have gotten an email since the UPS failed right when the power went out.

I actually had the exact same thing happen to me a few months ago. A power flicker so brief that it didn't even reset any of my clocks, but it caused one of my cheapo standby UPSes to give out.