[EAS] No Power

[Sean Donelan]

I wonder how many people in California have working battery-powered 
radios?  How many battery radios will still be working after several days 
of power shutdowns?

How many broadcast transmitters will still be transmitting?  How many 
cable systems and local PSTN central offices? Its one of those first world 
problems when people are used to utilities almost always working.  In 
third world countries, people are used to daily utility outages.

I saw a few California counties used the Wireless Emergency Alerts to send 
alerts in advance to predicted power shutdown areas.  Of course, their 
websites were immediately swamped by the load.

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Bill Ruck wrote:
> The paper says that Pacific Graft & Extortion will shut off power to 600,000 
> customers in Northern Ca today.
>
> The paper also claims that the cell companies have backup generators at all 
> of their cell sites.
>
> It will be entertaining to watch this unfold.