Sometimes they survive forest fires. Here's a video from a WISP in California. Their tower did just that last week. https://www.facebook.com/ShastaBeam/videos/2102541106701276/ ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "joel jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com> To: "Lou Katz" <lou@metron.com>, "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2018 5:19:51 PM Subject: Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:51:04AM -0700, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
Capitalist solution: Build yet another IoT device that just does emergency alerting.
Someone with free time should start a kickstarter or something. I'd totally chip in.
-A
It would be helpful if it worked when your celltower was down... http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/nwrsame.html