Yo ITechGeek! On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:11:48 -0400 ITechGeek <ITG@itechgeek.com> wrote:
At least cell phones have a reliable way to know where they are at any given moment.
Only when the cell towers are working. Early on in the Santiam Fire the cell towers went down early. With the telephone poles. The Santiam Canyon is steep and narrow, the telco feed up the river was an early single point of failure. Ditto for the fire on the Holiday Farm fire on the Mckenzie river. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin