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

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:43 , Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 08:27 , "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:07 , Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Exactly what would you suggest people do?  Use megaphones?  Put up posters at town hall?
>>> 
>>> PA-TRICK,
>>> 
>>> 73 DE K2AHR
>> 
>> Yeah, 'cause so many people have short wave gear that operates when power has been out long enough for their smartphone to stop working (or at all) these days.
> 
> As long as I can get gasoline, yeah, that's do-able.

1) "So many people".

2) "As long as I can get gasoline".

3) If you can get gasoline, are you saying you can power the shortwave but not the cell phone?  Weird....

I could go on, but I think everyone here gets the point.  Grandma's cell phone battery will die eventually, and she doesn't have a gas generator, or a D-cell + soldering iron & resistor & etc.  So she's screwed.  But what exactly is the alternative?

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TTFN,
patrick