To the Mods --

[hawgrider]

Keeping the lights on. 12 hour days, 7 days a week. Can you imagine how these psychos would act if the lights went out?

I shit you not we lost power tonight and the bank Atm was not working and my daughter could not get the gas pumps to work with her card. Power is back just now but a big section went down with no wind no storm a tiny bit of rain. It was not looking good at all.

[Broncosfan]

I shit you not we lost power tonight and the bank Atm was not working and my daughter could not get the gas pumps to work with her card. Power is back just now but a big section went down with no wind no storm a tiny bit of rain. It was not looking good at all.

I'm no computer wiz but I was wondering if the internet could hold up to all the kids online as well as everyone working from home now. That would be a disaster!

[hawgrider]

I'm no computer wiz but I was wondering if the internet could hold up to all the kids online as well as everyone working from home now. That would be a disaster!

Yeah there goes communication. Maybe I do need a ham radio

[Ricekila]

I shit you not we lost power tonight and the bank Atm was not working and my daughter could not get the gas pumps to work with her card. Power is back just now but a big section went down with no wind no storm a tiny bit of rain. It was not looking good at all.

Where are your filled gas cans ?

[Broncosfan]

Yeah there goes communication. Maybe I do need a ham radio

along with banking everything nowadays needs the internet. Talk about going into the dark ages quick

[hawgrider]

Where are your filled gas cans ?

Mine are full but my daughter who lives behind me needed some for her generator as the stinkin power went out here at around 5 pm

[hawgrider]

along with banking everything nowadays needs the internet. Talk about going into the dark ages quick

I don't keep any money in the bank. My payroll deposit hits the bank and we take it out since the grid blackout of 2003 I do not like being told I can't have my money period. I bury mine in my septic tank.

[Ricekila]

mine are full but my daughter who lives behind me needed some for her generator as the stinkin power went out here at around 5 pm

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[hawgrider]

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Pee pee what? Lol

[MountainGirl]

I'm no computer wiz but I was wondering if the internet could hold up to all the kids online as well as everyone working from home now. That would be a disaster!

I am and it cant.
Lemme rephrase.
"Computer wiz" I aint.
BUT, late hubby & I designed/built infrastructure systems... and even with the advance light-speed technology, fiber, 5G etc, it will always be the case that the speed of anything is governed by the slowest 'component' in the path to the end-user - including the end-user's device - and I doubt many hard-wired PCs are hooked to fiber. Wireless? 5G might make 4G look like dial-up...but if the user doesn't have a 5G device then it wont matter. 3G and 4G are on different wave-lengths (3G is being phased out by the big TelComs) and both are still constrained by bandwidth availability.

THAT SAID: Isn't this just a wonderful opportunity for the Government to step in and upgrade EVERYONE! to the highest speeds so they can monitor.. oops, I mean so that WE can fully utilize all the wonderful things that are out there online! (Telehealth, telelearning, etc...) We never have to unplug!! Pfffft.