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I can only hope. DC would shut down. Cheers up
I’ve got some Hustlers from 1995 around here somewhere. (Kidding)
I will finally be able to get caught up on all the things I have to do.
An intentional outage of the internet would be a bad thing for the government. It would drive people content to gripe and post on the web to actually get up and meet with people of a like mind.
Once those "inert objects" start moving, it may be hard to stop them.
If this was to happen, millions would die.
I am serious.
Most businesses today, especially retail, to include grocery chains, use “just in time” supply methods to save on costs.
They no longer have warehouses nearby, or even within a particular city, filled with replacement stock. As items are purchased and the price code scanned, an entry is made in a database, and when a certain point is reached, a reorder packet goes out over the Internet to a central computer at some HQs that maps out a delivery restock, using centralized warehouse and even point of order from a supplier (like say, Campbells) to load a truck for delivery. The trucks themselves are dispatched and processed via computer and the Internet, and drivers are and trucks are matched up by computer and a route planned by computer that establishes the cheapest delivery schedule.
So, this all stops. Dead.
There are no longer the people in place, or the knowhow because of this, to immediately go back to a manual system of yore. Food would run out in the cities first, as people deplete the no-longer replacing stock of items on the shelves.
Gasoline is delivered to gas stations, and this includes diesel at truck stops, the same way.
In the short run, we’d run out of gasoline, diesel fuel and food about simultaneously. Modern commerce would stop. Urban youths, hungry and out of food, will riot or take whatever they can find by force. Elderly city folks will quietly starve or have what little they have taken and then starve.
Suburbia would likewise face the same challenges but many will fight back, but still, without food, hungry people give up hope and do what they must. But on foot, as all the gas is gone.
It really would be a blood bath.
Country boys will survive, at least the ones with homegrown food and stocks and firearms.
As John Denver sang, Thank God I’m a country boy!
If telephones and internet went down permanently, we obviously would have a near total breakdown of commerce and economic activity. This would lead to a lock-down in urban areas and a state of more or less anarchy in rural areas.
Using an over the air communication system in this setting exposes the user to relatively easy detection by brigands and government forces unless extraordinary measures are used (short transmission time, codes).
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Free Republic needs a HSMM-MESH network ;)
We have one of those Emergency radios but do they still sell CB radios or some equivalent? Maybe I’ll pick one up.
The most “mature” comms group that I know of is AmRRON. The comms plan integrates the personal services (CB, MURS, FRS, GMRS) with ham. The network is fairly extensive.
The same thing I did before they were invented.
Same as before, head out to the golf course.