Was there a power outage, or is my Time Capsule forcing me to update?

I ended up applying the update in anycase, but it seems weird, my Time Capsule started flashing orange. I loaded the airport utility, and it wanted to tell me to update. After updating everything was green. But why would it start flashing orange like that? Was there a power outage, or does the hardware notice the update availability, and stop functioning except to download and apply it?
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