You need a plan B.

You won’t need it until you do.
You need to prepare now.

It happened gradually then suddenly.

It started with an iMessage error. Blue bubbles turned to green and back to blue, frenetically. Then everything was gone.

Power was out. Internet was out. Cell service was out.

We were in Kapalua, 10 miles from Lahaina, a city wiped off the map by a confluence of events created by climate change.

Just a week before, I put it out there in front of my wife that maybe with the Super El Nino I should bring my Starlink. We laughed about it. I’m the doomer in the family, so its totally on-brand for me to consider hauling a space satellite dish in a backpack.

I should have brought it. If I had, I would have known what was going on, instead of being totally cut off from all news and information for almost two days.

We’re now in an era of climate catastrophes. And we’re not prepared for it.

We assume we’re safe because we’ve never had a hurricane in our neighborhood, let alone our state, that it couldn’t happen to us (this is a psychological condition called normalcy bias).

We assume that because we haven’t experienced a fire in our neighborhood that it couldn’t happen to us (this is a pschological condition called recency bias).

In this new world, you need more than a phone. You need power and signal. Which means you need the right solar power generating system and a portable Internet and network powered by it. It needs to be a system you can manage with zero support, because support won’t be there until you’re connected.

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