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<blockquote data-quote="ICanFixIt" data-source="post: 3415717" data-attributes="member: 45888"><p>For many years, I had been saying that I would gladly give up my technology if that is what it took to get everyone else to give up theirs. It seemed like a small sacrifice for all of the good I believed it would do. e.g. my daughter and grandson sitting on my love seat, texting each other instead of just talking. Well, I got my wish. Hurricane Michael knocked my internet out the morning of October 10, 2018. I had no water, no electricity and no internet. I used a bucket to get water out of the pool so I could flush the toilet. I ran my generator to get electricity. Those were minor inconveniences, compared to no internet. Before I lost it, I had no idea about how much a part of my life it was. Nothing I could do would let me have internet. Due to overwhelming demand on their crippled networks, cell phone carriers shut down tethering, so that didn't solve the problem. A few times I drove 70 miles, one way, to get a wifi connection. 79 days later I got my internet back. That was the longest 79 days of my life.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to today. With all of the recent changes in our society caused by covid-19, antifa, BLM, politicians who behave like dictators, social distancing, virtual school, work-from-home, canceled events, quarantines, virtual doctor visits, over the top political discord, lay-offs, business shutdowns, and millions of new, untrained gun owners, I predict that a widespread and lasting internet outage could be the spark that would ignite this powder keg we are sitting on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ICanFixIt, post: 3415717, member: 45888"] For many years, I had been saying that I would gladly give up my technology if that is what it took to get everyone else to give up theirs. It seemed like a small sacrifice for all of the good I believed it would do. e.g. my daughter and grandson sitting on my love seat, texting each other instead of just talking. Well, I got my wish. Hurricane Michael knocked my internet out the morning of October 10, 2018. I had no water, no electricity and no internet. I used a bucket to get water out of the pool so I could flush the toilet. I ran my generator to get electricity. Those were minor inconveniences, compared to no internet. Before I lost it, I had no idea about how much a part of my life it was. Nothing I could do would let me have internet. Due to overwhelming demand on their crippled networks, cell phone carriers shut down tethering, so that didn't solve the problem. A few times I drove 70 miles, one way, to get a wifi connection. 79 days later I got my internet back. That was the longest 79 days of my life. Fast forward to today. With all of the recent changes in our society caused by covid-19, antifa, BLM, politicians who behave like dictators, social distancing, virtual school, work-from-home, canceled events, quarantines, virtual doctor visits, over the top political discord, lay-offs, business shutdowns, and millions of new, untrained gun owners, I predict that a widespread and lasting internet outage could be the spark that would ignite this powder keg we are sitting on. [/QUOTE]
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