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I disagree. No power for months is quite a bit worse than 2 days without the Internet, no matter what the scale or the cause is. 100k people without power is fa
by dschuetz 9y ago
I disagree. No power for months is quite a bit worse than 2 days without the Internet, no matter what the scale or the cause is. 100k people without power is far worse than 100k or 1M without Internet.
On the scale of Internet outages, I agree, it's a whopper. Potentially affecting two dozens of African countries even just for 2 days is a big deal. It's still less important than several hundreds of thousands of people not having power for months. Which is reeeaaally bad. It blows my mind, actually, that such a thing is even possible on US territory.
- RightMillennial 9y agoI didn't mean this internet outage is worse than the Puerto Rico situation. That's why I said they're not comparable. The expanse of the internet outage is simply what makes it news worthy.
- Spare_account 9y agoAlso the novelty, it is a recent event. Puerto Rico's event has been happening for a while and is therefore less likely to be headline news.
- rovr138 9y agoIt's still hard back in PR. They're showing Power generation and usage statistics. They're not showing how many houses/businesses are really up. While things are better, they're not great. My mom is leaving her house open and our family further away and people she know that they can show up and load the washer and dryer. My grandpa brought his washer from his house. So that's 2 washers, 1 dryer running almost all day long. She's spending almost $200 more a month in power than she used to. So Percent of Power Generation or Percent of Power Usage != Percent of People connected.