Nope, get a sat-phone, some wood & wet blankets, semephore flags, a mirror and
brush up on you Moris code. .. (after reading up on tsunami threats for
the So.Cal. area over the weekend 
Sat phones, smoke signals, and visual signals each have their own
failure modes. Rain-fade affects most of them. Each may be a useful
addition to your existing set of communication tools. None are
perfect substitutes for other types of telecommunication systems.
Amateur radio may be used to support life and safety operations, but
not commercial business.
I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before
the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of
paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from
building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have
buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no
reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which ....
Maybe we should have these one-call utility line/main marking services
cross-reference who's fiber they're tagging, and give the respective
carriers a heads-up warning before actual excavating begins...
[snip]
paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from
building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have
buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no
[snip]
They would have figured out something else to destroy the fiber with.
They might've joined forces with an evil group of physicists and
invented antifiber... you know, the two come in contact and annihilate
each other.
I here quest has dug up it's share of fibre according to worldcom. That
locomotive with the plows (3 trenches) takes no prisoners
Nope, get a sat-phone, some wood & wet blankets, semephore flags, a
mirror and
brush up on you Moris code. .. (after reading up on tsunami threats for
the So.Cal. area over the weekend
Sat phones, smoke signals, and visual signals each have their own
failure modes. Rain-fade affects most of them. Each may be a useful
addition to your existing set of communication tools. None are
perfect substitutes for other types of telecommunication systems.
Amateur radio may be used to support life and safety operations, but
not commercial business.
I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before
the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of
paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from
building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have
buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no
reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which ....
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