Plain old telephones (land lines) may still work, assuming your phone does not require power. In a long enough outage, eventually, only battery-powered radios will provide communications. Many cell towers and even some cable companies have diesel generators co-located on the tower property, so cellular communications may last 24 or more hours, but the place where that thick bundle of cables from the tower terminates must also have power so call are routed correctly.
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Commerce will grind to a halt because customers cannot checkout, use a credit card, or order anything online.Ĭell towers, cable, routers, WiFi, and satellite TV receivers will go down. Transportation will quickly be disrupted because there will be no traffic lights, no communications, no electronic bills of lading, and no way to pump fuel. Food storage and prep is also an early casualty as temperatures in freezers and fridges rise and electric ovens and cook tops don’t work. Water systems will fail, both for individual who use wells and (eventually) for municipalities that rely on large pumps to keep up pressure or to refill water tanks. Without power, we can’t use credit cards, pump gas, purchase food and goods, operate medical equipment, etc. When we lose power, there is a cascade in which we go from losing lighting, refrigeration, and HVAC, to communications, utilities, food prep, and many of the day-to-day actions of we take without thinking in our modern lives. Power is our societies Achilles heel, the beginning of the end, and that which separates us from how or ancestors lived 150 and more years ago. Whether you’re preparing for an earthquake, a hurricane, a blizzard, civil unrest, economic disruption, or a nuclear attack, a meteor strike, an EMP, or a solar flare, a common denominator to these and many other disasters and emergencies is a power outage. A sign point the way for hurricane evacuation.
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