There be but a few hoses that provide
pixies to all of Galveston Island
Angry pixies: Why did the power go out?
Internet pixies: Why did the internet go out?
Power
First, where to find information on power. Go to:
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Centerpoint Electric has an outage map: https://tracker.centerpointenergy.com/map/texas
Internet
Where to find information on the failure
of the internet:
- Using your cell phone, if the internet on that works: https://downdetector.com/
- Xfinity cable: https://www.xfinity.com/support/statusmap
Why?
There are any number of reasons power or internet went out:
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A drunk anywhere in the hundred or so miles of power lines hit any of the poles.
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A storm.
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Salt. No, really. When the Gulf of Mexico conditions are right, Gulf water will become airborne in tiny particles and land on all sorts of thing. That results in conductive salt water on the lines and some neat ways to crash the system. You will see the fire departments hosing down the power lines now and again. They are washing off the salt.
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Salt in the internet repeater boxes. Every so often the signal travelling down the internet line has to be amplified. These amplifiers don't like salt.
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Wind.
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General wear and tear.
Lucky your phone has a flashlight, eh?
Those weird piles of paper
Did you notice there are books, paper things with words written in them, on the shelves? There are some general books and a bunch on Galveston Island. Look here: http://wolfswishingstar.com/books.html