I challenge everybody in this group in the next 90 days to have a fire drill at their house or residents or wherever it is that they reside and then I would like y'all to tell the group where your shortfalls were and how you plan on fixing them for your next fire drill sharing this information with everybody is exactly what we're here for

Snicker.

Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.” She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, because everyone else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too. specially chicken, pork and beef.
Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.


The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken. She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again. I don’t understand.
My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.

Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I admired most. I told her, “Colonel Sanders.” Guess where I am now...

Seriously folks.... Turn off your main breaker this weekend for a test run. See what fails. Can you run the fridge? Do you really wanna use a generator to run the fridge long term? Internet is down... how do you communicate? Walkie talkie or mesh? Can you cook three meals? How is sleeping without air conditioning?

If you ever wanted an opportunity to get spouse approval for a solar project , turn the power off and show her what it's like to not have coffee and HVAC.

Found an engineering sheet on these trusses.... problem is they list a snow load but not with relation to the span. I guess square feet are square feet.

I was talking to one of the local hams who has gotten in to meshtastic the other day and he said what was valuable about meshtastic was that it didn't need any infrastructure, whereas meshcore requires repeaters. So his conjecture is that meshtastic is more suitable for ad hoc emergency response.

Well as it turns out, you can do the same with meshcore. From your phone/terminal you go into the settings and check the box that says "repeater". It will move your MC device to 918mhz and that device will behave as both an interface for your phone and a repeater.

Here's what normal meshcore operation looks like.... on 910mhz using proper repeaters around you.

So the keypoint here is that meshtastic is for small adhoc groups and meshcore can readily be configured to behave in the same manner (although not interoperable with MT). If you want a small adhoc network, you can use MT or MC to accomplish this.

MT is /not/ scaleable though. Once you get over 10-15 people in vicinity of each other, the network saturates. So for a region the size of a county or state... or even multiple states, meshcore is the way to go.