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 OK, you've gotta see this. It's the continuing story of Hannah vs. The Basement.

She evaded all my previous efforts and for about the last month I've been trying to figure out how. I borrowed an idea from barbed wire security fences and put a 10 inch board at a 45 degree angle along the top of all the pegboards on the theory that her legs don't bend properly to get around that. Didn't work.
So then I got some blue chalk dust from Home Depot, the stuff that is used to refill chalk line markers, and dusted it everywhere on the theory that wherever she went over she would knock some off. It is all still in place.
The camera has been giving me some problems. Events recorded to the cloud are only available about half the time. The rest of the time, they throw an access error. The ones I could see, there was a curious camera artifact, a sort of white blob that files at high speed around the frame.
So my working theory was that my basement is haunted by ghosts and that they are helping Hannah over.
That would have been more believable than what she actually was doing.
I got an SD card to record video locally. It's a total pain because they've designed it to record 12 seconds at a time. So if you have an hour of video, that is stored in 300 individual files. I think they want to force you to pay for the cloud. So I have spent most of tonight assembling the files and then trimming it so you can see this little hairy acrobat at work.
Now think about what she's doing here. It is in a part of the basement where the lights are out and I haven't fixed them yet so it is really dark. That's why the camera is in night mode. It is a top shelf of three, with about ten inches between the shelf and the ceiling. I had screwed in a board to block the hole anyway, but it can only be attached on one side.
Somehow she had to figure out there was a hole up there despite it being blocked up, and figure out how to ascend the shelves, pull the block off, slide through the opening, run to the foundation vent and have an escape.
The fact that she discovered this exit and the amount of thought that went into that and also into figuring out how to make it work is just amazing. First she investigates it. Then she goes away to think about it. The action starts around 1:25 when she begins moving things out of her way.
I think she might be a space alien.

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