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Post Peak Drill
On Tuesday afternoon, nearly everyone in Humboldt County, California lost internet, cellular and long distance service due to a severed fiber optic cable (Why both DSL and Cable modems went out is beyond my cyber expertise). Around 2am a windstorm knocked out power for 24 hours. It ended up being a day of candles, Aladdin oil lamps, only gravity fed water from the storage tank and cooking my son’s birthday dinner on the wood stove. Just to add to the mix, a large tree went down on the road to town, requiring a 30 minute detour. Today all is back to normal (except a large number of dirty dishes that I decided to wait for some light to wash.) I always find these outages useful as drills. Last year’s extended outage made me realize an essential tool was missing – a non-electric coffee grinder! As the saying goes, “Death before dishonor, but nothing before coffee.”
Now, I have a lot of TOD posts to catch up on.
Pre-Peak Drill in the South Bay too.
In a real Post-Peak situation, there will be no gasoline-filled car to retreat to. There will be no promise of a better day tomorrow.
We here recently found an exquisite antique hand coffee grinder on ebay UK for not much money. Check out the nice grinders they have in Europe.
klee said:
"Humboldt County, California lost internet, cellular and long distance service due to a severed fiber optic cable
(Why both DSL and Cable modems went out is beyond my cyber expertise)"
That fibre optic cable uses a technology called Sonet. Sonet links can be configured to offer multiple OCX, DS3 and sub-rate interfaces to carry both voice and data.
Most DSL systems (in Verizons footprint) aggregate net traffic and send it over an ATM connection carried by a Sonet link.
Obviously, the cable modem provider used the same fiber/Sonet link for all of its aggregated net traffic. As did the cellular and long distance providers.
Lobby the owner of the fiber optic connection (usually the phone company) to provide a survivable BLSR Sonet ring.
Thanks for the info Sandor. I will pass it on.
A post peak Drill. What a great idea.
Why not turn off your gas and elec for a day. Take note of all the problems you have. See what you need to change.
Finding out you need a hand powered coffee grinder is amusing.
Discovering your well pump won't work could be life saving.
In anycase it will definetly help you pinpoint the areas you need to prepare not just for post peak, but hurricanes, blackouts, earthquakes etc.
I think everyone should try this.
24 hrs Man do I wish... we were out for 6 days after the last wind storm...