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I got a great kick out of reading some of the comments to this Lifehacker.com article. Just a few days ago, I wondered what it would be like to not have Internet access 24/7 and while I admit to being slightly weirded out by the thought, I thought I could manage.

Then it occured to me that chances are that if my Internet access is down, it’s likely to be because of a weather issue or some local disaster. This is a problem because the Internet is my primary source of news: wandering around the house resulted in one TV (probably also useless since the same people provide Internet and cable) and one radio (slightly closer to the dead side of things than the live) being found and no other real way to get the news without the Internet.

The worst case scenario, of course, is a prolonged power outage, which happens more often than you’d think around here – the spring and autumn rains are pretty devastating when it comes to utilities. Then not only is the main Internet out, but all the devices with wireless connections are soon to follow as the batteries die out.