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Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts
From: Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:48:21 -0800
When I lived in Oklahoma, the mantra of the locals was "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." As a member of a Boy Scout troop in the northern part of the Sooner State, we were told, repeatedly, to expect anything from broiling to deep freeze on our campouts.
One such outing was on fallow farmland. Because the campsite was in the middle of nowhere, we were a small group, and came in three cars. We pitched four tents. During the night, a gullywasher came through and dropped several inches of water in one hour. Three of the tents were inundated with water, and the campers ended up sleeping in the cars. My tent was dry inside, because my tent-mate and I had seen the storm clouds, dug a trench around the tent, and loosened the ropes. It helped that we had pitched the tent on a slight mound.
Some disasters are unavoidable, like tornados. Others allow for mitigation by the thoughtful.
On 2/22/21 9:18 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:23:22PM +0000, Bret Clark wrote:Texas doesn't generally experience this type of extreme cold.That was then; this is now. As scientist Jeff Masters put it most of a decade ago: The atmosphere I grew up with no longer exists. My new motto with regards to the weather is, "expect the unprecedented." In the years since he's said that we've seen a number of unprecedented events: Sandy, Harvey, California wildfires, last year's midwest derecho, and so on. This event in Texas is just another one; there will be more; they'll get worse. We should probably get ready for that. ---rsk
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- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts, (continued)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mel Beckman (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Brandon Svec via NANOG (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mel Beckman (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Rich Kulawiec (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Saku Ytti (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Rich Kulawiec (Feb 23)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mel Beckman (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Brandon Svec via NANOG (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mike Hammett (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Ben Cannon (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Stephen Satchell (Feb 22)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Yang Yu (Feb 16)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Carsten Bormann (Feb 16)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mark Tinka (Feb 17)
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- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Brandon Svec (Feb 16)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Miles Fidelman (Feb 16)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Mark Tinka (Feb 17)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Michael Thomas (Feb 16)
- Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts Chris Boyd (Feb 16)