California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

Mon Jul 30 15:22:32 UTC 2018

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/ 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "joel jaeggli" <joelja at bogus.com> 
To: "Lou Katz" <lou at metron.com>, "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron at heyaaron.com> 
Cc: nanog at 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 