Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State | Washington Free Beacon

[Tom Azlin W7SUA]

yup.

All sorts of excitement around here plus incredible wild speculation on 
what was happening. The local delivery guy gave me the first clue on how 
wide spread the outage was but then asked me if I thought we were at 
war! I told him likely just a fiber cut as some sort of modern major 
attack would cause more complete outages.

We lost CenturyLink hosted long distance and internet services most of 
the afternoon.  Our Verizon cell phones and 3G cell internet service 
were still running so I presumed their fiber was somewhere else the 
vandals did not find. Main issue around here is being able to keep our 
wells and water pressurization systems running so worst would have been 
a long power outage. We have a back up generator for the water system 
and our fridge but the propane will run sooner or later.

Local hams were active. Mountain top repeater sites have good backup 
power. I presume the local and State  ARES/RACES and NTS nets would have 
come up for health and welfare traffic plus there are many EOCs around 
the county with assigned ham radio teams. The yearly fire season keeps 
all that working.

I'm wishing that this would help put in some action on making sure our 
infrastructure is robust but am guessing will be soon forgotten. 
Especially in light of the cost to add more cable or power routes.

73, tom w7sua
Chino Valley AZ




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