Should mention I've had a GFCI kick off because I touched a reflector and there was a static discharge.. and since the reflector was grounded, the GFCI kicked. Don't know what kind of voltage/amperage you'd see from a static cling zap, but it was enough that day. So it makes me think it's not that hard to make these things do their thing.
On a side note, I've been looking for power failure alarms. Found a couple..
http://www.cshincorporated.com/produ...products_id=87
This one is pretty neat.. I see it come up in a bunch of places so I wonder if I could find it locally like at Rona/HD/etc.:
http://www.improvementscatalog.com/p...L&code=MP8WFGL