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258: Some Real MacGyver #$@!%

2024/10/27
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Brad discusses his experience dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, focusing on technical challenges like portable lighting, generators, and older house wiring. He also touches on remote work with limited connectivity, dehumidifying a flooded basement, and some computing artifacts found during cleanup.
  • Hurricane Helene caused significant flooding and power outages in Western North Carolina.
  • Portable lighting and battery packs are crucial during power outages.
  • Understanding house wiring and generator usage is essential in emergencies.
  • Home Assistant's power consumption dashboard is a useful tool.

Shownotes Transcript

Brad's back from Western North Carolina, so it's time for a casual debriefing on being out there for two and a half weeks dealing with the Hurricane Helene aftermath, with a focus on all sorts of technical subjects like portable lighting strategies, acquiring and hooking up a generator in a hurry, making sense of the wiring layouts in older houses, remote work with almost no connectivity, dehumidifying and remediating a flooded basement, and, yes, some of the sillier computing artifacts that emerged in the course of the cleanup.

The links for emergency and offline maps we mentioned that were sent in by a listener:

http://cellmapper.net/)

https://atlas.eia.gov/apps/all-energy-infrastructure-and-resources/explore)

https://organicmaps.app/)

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