Hurricane Katrina Survivor

[imported_andrewparker]

I live about 30 miles away from the coast of mississippi, currently the house is running on a generator. The coast is destroyed.. all the casinos and everything. its bad

 

[Ryan]

Glad you're OK

 

[imported_andrewparker]

Yeah im very lucky. my uncle owns a gas station and everybody is going crazy trying to get gas

 

[FoBoT]

do you have enough water/food to stay in your house?
best of luck to you
we pray for your safety

 

[cjgallen]

Well, you've got internet, and that's all that matters

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

 

[loup garou]

Glad to hear you're ok! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Nik
How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

Lots of people have internet connections and nothing else, it's really quite impressive.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Nik
How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

Lots of people have internet connections and nothing else, it's really quite impressive.

Wow, that's crazy! :Q

If I could email them all some food and water, I would. Maybe I could send Paypal! :laugh:

 

[frankgomez75]

Originally posted by: werk
Glad to hear you're ok! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Nik
How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

Lots of people have internet connections and nothing else, it's really quite impressive.

Because without the internet the world would end! duh... :roll:

 

[Baked]

What's the 1st thing you do when the shed hits the fan? Post on ATOT!

Good luck man.

 

[cherrytwist]

:music:Well, you've got internet, and that's all that matters. :music:

Fixed.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: werk
Glad to hear you're ok! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Nik
How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

Lots of people have internet connections and nothing else, it's really quite impressive.

The internet is a beautiful work of art. It's largely self-healing, and the infrastructure itself is ridiculously hardened. Fiber optics aren't easily fscked by being submerged. Routing locations are sickly redundant in their power supplies. Many centers will scale their service and bandwidth down to match available power reserves to keep things running as long as possible. It's the only "utility" that we have that has inbuilt failsafes for every conceivable scenario. Teh intraweb could survive nuclear war.

 

[imported_andrewparker]

yeah we have enough food, and we have the generator hooked up to the well so we have water. my house wasnt hurt as much as the other houses. we lost alot of shingles and the roof started leaking. i am uploading pictures right now

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

How much gas do you have for that generator?

 

[gwai lo]

i thought that's what the internet was designed for in the first place o_0

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: werk
Glad to hear you're ok! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Nik
How is the connection to your ISP working if nothing else in the area is working? Wouldn't substations be down? Wouldn't local routing centers be out of commission?

I call shens.

Lots of people have internet connections and nothing else, it's really quite impressive.

The internet is a beautiful work of art. It's largely self-healing, and the infrastructure itself is ridiculously hardened. Fiber optics aren't easily fscked by being submerged. Routing locations are sickly redundant in their power supplies. Many centers will scale their service and bandwidth down to match available power reserves to keep things running as long as possible. It's the only "utility" that we have that has inbuilt failsafes for every conceivable scenario. Teh intraweb could survive nuclear war.

so if there was nuclear war....cockroaches could take over ATOT?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
so if there was nuclear war....cockroaches could take over ATOT?

They already do every summer >_>

 

[imported_andrewparker]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/ext.php?user=andrewparker

there are some pictures. we have plenty of gas for it, my uncle owns a gas station and he has about 2000 gallons left for us.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: andrewparker
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/ext.php?user=andrewparker

there are some pictures. we have plenty of gas for it, my uncle owns a gas station and he has about 2000 gallons left for us.

How old is your house? It looks like it's in good condition, besides the roof.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Baked
What's the 1st thing you do when the shed hits the fan? Post on ATOT!

Good luck man.

Well, on the bright side it is good he stayed calm enough to post on AT.

 

[FoBoT]

your airplane is broken, don't try to fly in that

 

[CHfan4ever]

Im glad your ok dude.

 

[imported_andrewparker]

house is about 20 years old. thats the airplane exactly like my dad just sold. For the most part everybody is calm around here, except the people who are looking for gas.