Posted on 02/26/2015 8:00:39 AM PST by dware
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Officials say all services have been restored following act of vandalism that left people across northern Arizona without the use of the Internet, cellphones and landlines for several hours.
During Wednesday's outages, businesses couldn't process credit card transactions, ATMs didn't function, law enforcement databases were unavailable, and even weather reports were affected in an area stretching from north of Phoenix to Flagstaff, about 100 miles away.
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I remember quite a few years ago when someone got into an underground vault in Tulsa and went to work on the wires with a chainsaw.
Messed up the system good!
It wasn’t just internet, ATM’s - even law enforcement databases? Pretty suspicious... I’m with the one who said test run.
I’m sure everyone already knows to stash some cash at home.
“During Wednesday’s outages, businesses couldn’t process credit card transactions, ATMs didn’t function, law enforcement databases were unavailable, and even weather reports were affected in an area stretching from north of Phoenix to Flagstaff, about 100 miles away.”
PURPOSEFUL*PROBING*
Oh SURE it was “vandalism”.
Sure.
Same deal with the 2014 south San Jose power station shoot-em-up episode.
One more thing couldn’t happen when there was no communication with a bank possible.
SOME TRUCKS LOADED WITH VITAL GOODS, FOOD/WATER, COULD NOT LEAVE THEIR LOADING POINT.
I researched this some time ago, and when a truck is due to be loaded, the company to whom the load is sent, has to contact their bank and pay for the load before that truck leaves. No one uses paper anymore, they transfer funds by using the internet. Internet down, No payment, the truck doesn’t leave.
If power was off for a while, grocery shelves would be empty. That WOULD bring riots for food.
In this area around Dallas, grocery stores were emptied last Saturday/Sunday, due to freezing rain/sleet to happen Sunday night. We were iced in on Monday. Tuesday, there was little milk on the shelf, among other items. Trucks had to get here before the shelves had food again.
At times like this, cash is king. Make sure you have some tucked away.
PING!
Perhaps from the ROP demographic?
I'm sure they have some money to duplicate the lines. Oh, wait, the US corporate fed-state tax rate averages 41 percent.
Never mind.
We live and work in the affected area. I was at a local public school. At first I thought it was the school’s network that was down. Then, I couldn’t call home. I thought that was odd. The school secretary told that no one can access the internet, except if you had Version, and that was spotty. First reports were the outage was statewide.
By the end of the day, all the teachers were aware of the problem and were starting to wonder if it was a terrorist attack or something. It showed me how quickly our society can be brought to it’s knees. I didn’t know our cell phone carrier ran on cable. Everything is so centralized, which makes it vulnerable. Alternate forms of communications is a must.
Without milk, eggs and bread you can’t make DOOM French Toast!!!! ;-)
Those cell towers have to connect to the Internet somehow.
False Flagstaff operation?
Lol. Nice!
All those prepper websites “bookmarked for later” - we should be printing the info NOW.
No Internet, no email, no phones - what do you do to communicate with your group?
Pre-planning is key.
So they're already investigating "net neutrality"?
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