[Outages-discussion] FEMA, W.H. send victims to Internet

[Lyle Giese]

And how long does the battery last in your smart phone?  My wife can not 
go 8 hours without a charger.(that's one reason I don't have a 'smart' 
phone)

Plus in really big events like Sandy or the big ice storm that went 
through Kentucky a couple of years ago, how long will the cell towers 
survive without power?  Not all of them have on sight gensets.  Plus 
network outages

Way to vulnerable to 'depend' on the Internet in events like this.

Lyle

On 10/30/12 08:20, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Seems to me that cellular phones with browsers and other 
> internet-enabled applications are the obvious answer.
>
> Owen
>
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 04:34 , Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net 
> <mailto:jared at puck.nether.net>> wrote:
>
>> Was reading and came across this. The Internet is now the primary 
>> means of government communication replacing the emergency alert 
>> system it seems...
>>
>>
>> POLITICO <http://politico.com/>
>>
>>
>>   FEMA, W.H. send victims to Internet <http://politi.co/Tklj8h>
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>> image <http://politi.co/Tklj8h>
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>> By STEVE FRIESS | 10/29/2012 04:48 PM EDT
>>
>> When President Barack Obama urged Americans under siege from 
>> Hurricane Sandy to stay inside and keep watch on ready.gov 
>> <http://ready.gov/> for the latest, he left out something pretty 
>> important - where to turn if the electricity goes out. Despite the 
>> heightened expectation o...
>>
>> READ ON POLITICO. <http://politi.co/Tklj8h>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jared Mauch
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