Yes that is what we learnt in Chch after the earthquakes, the only thing that worked for communication most of the time was the the old wired phone network which they are accelerating the push to get rid of down here and apparently all over America as well.
Wood burning stoves also being phased out so when the electric power goes out there will be no heating, no cooking, no lights. no internet, and as in last disaster, cell phone network so overloaded, ceased to function.
I'm old, so is my dog, if we lose power in Winter we will both freeze as we rely on a heat pump.
I have an old kerosene heater I saved from my parents garage after Mum died as last ditch back up heating for a day or two.
Wood burning stoves also being phased out so when the electric power goes out there will be no heating, no cooking, no lights. no internet, and as in last disaster, cell phone network so overloaded, ceased to function.
I'm old, so is my dog, if we lose power in Winter we will both freeze as we rely on a heat pump.
I have an old kerosene heater I saved from my parents garage after Mum died as last ditch back up heating for a day or two.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche