Wed, 28 Apr 2004

Stupid Wind Storm
That stupid wind storm caused some problems back at home. I called the house around 4pm, and noticed that the answering machine was not picking up.

After a brief stop at hack night, i noticed that I couldn't ping my house either. Ok, so no electrical power right? Thats fine, i'll just go home, and plug my home network into my car. Maybe the APC finally died, with all the stuff I have plugged in, it probably wouldn't last more than 2 hours.

I got home around 7 pm, noting the lack of power, and plugged various items (DSL modem, AP, etc.) into my car. After everything powered up, my DSL light kept flashing -- yea, phone lines are down too.

Running my home network off my car would be pretty cool to talk about the next day, but with no internet, what's the point?

I finally plugged into my CDMA 1xRTT modem..er..telephone (Don't tell Sprint!) and was able to get on the Internet. Then I realized how cold and dark it was getting, so eventually we left the house and went some place that had power.

So, the power was out all evening and all night, and it sucked. If I would have bought that generator for Field Day last year, I wouldn't have had any issues.

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