Repost: An account of experiencing the recent power outage. Are we prepared for this? I think not...

https://www.fastcompany.com/91326177/this-is-how-it-feels-at-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-world

This is how it feels at the beginning of the end of the world

Spain shut down for almost an entire day. It was chaos. It was terrible. It was beautiful. The end of civilization will be weird when it comes, at least in this part of the world.

Fast Company

@eclecticpassions We have let our redundancy slide. The landline phone system had long-term power backup. Mobile not so much, and there are a bunch of new dependencies nobody thinks of. Radio stations were also required by law to have backup power.

After a couple of long power outages I got an off-grid inverter, which is good for about a day. Whether I will have Internet is out of my control though.

A friend is building and selling self-powered Starlink briefcases.