When the storms of 1995 hit in northern San Luis Obispo county I enjoyed that my connection to PunkNet stayed up and that all but one of the other network providers in the area simply failed to answer.
At the time I was running off a bank of Trojan golf cart batteries which would hold the PC, monitor, stereo and answering machine up for about a 24 hour DAY in the event of power failure.
fun with uptime
At the time I was running off a bank of Trojan golf cart batteries which would hold the PC, monitor, stereo and answering machine up for about a 24 hour DAY in the event of power failure.