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When the Tubbs Fire happened north of the SF Bay last year, it cut off the few Internet links to the Eureka area in Northern California. ATM machines were down
by all_usernames 8y ago
When the Tubbs Fire happened north of the SF Bay last year, it cut off the few Internet links to the Eureka area in Northern California. ATM machines were down as a result, as were the phone lines. If you were stuck somewhere without gas, and without cash, you were really out of luck.
This kind of thing can happen at any moment and yet how many people are really prepared?
- dfsegoat 8y agoFact: 70% of residents in the 3 counties (Napa, Lake, Sonoma) had FULL telecom outage (no internet, phone, cell) for 2-3 days. Power was out for 2 days at our house. When your entire profession and skillset is based on the internet, and computers, etc. -- and those things simply cease to exist for all practical purposes - that is a bad feeling.