THIS IS NOT A DRILL~ Power out in All of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and parts of Mexico!
Earlier today, something happened.
Going about our day, we noticed, hey the power is out. Next, cellphones, oh wait none of us have cellphones?! Internet? NO!!!!!! We are disconnected. I was in the jungle with one of my best brothers walking around cutting down the jungle with machetes!
Jokingly talking about how it could be the apocalypse and we wouldn't know. At that moment we didnt realize out of our little bubble we were closer than we imagined. Almost the entirety of Central America was without power!!! We drove into town, nothing was open and handt been since the morning. The only market that was open on its tiny generator, enough to run the registers only. Lines extended out the door......
What Local Costa Rican Officials Had to Say!
"ICE is trying to diagnose the problem," said Communications Minister Mauricio Herrera, referring to the office by its Spanish acronym. He said that workers succeeded in restoring power to some areas of Costa Rica.
ICE said that the origins of the blackout were outside of the country and urged the public to remain indoors while they try to fix the problem.In Panama, the ETESA government power authority said via Twitter that the nation had experienced just a "partial blackout" and that workers were trying to restore power to the affected areas.The blackout in Panama occurred about 15 minutes into a major speech delivered by President Juan Carlos Varela to the country's legislature.
THIS WAS A WARNING SHOT!
You can bet we are headed to stock up the rest our reserves. This was a test. Our local company has no idea what happened, and to see it extend over all these countries. We were already joking about being prepared. This was proof of concept. Airports were shut down, luckily my friend who was supposed to catch her flight accidentally booked it wrong. She would have been able to go no where. Gridlock and none of the systems were open or online. Considering our thoughts while we had no idea what was going on wasn't actually far off is incredible. We are now going to prepare for these events more often. Waiting to hear what they think it was. This was proof of how little time it would take before everything was in total disarray!
This is proof of why we live in the jungle with a greenhouse, solar, water storage, and believe it or not, we have about a months supply of back up food always here in reserve. We will be doubling down on it now!
We even checked in with friends @anahilarski & @hilarski Panama Was out, Friends who are not on steemit confirmed in their areas of Mexico, we are waiting to hear messages from the friends we have on columbia!
Thank you for following along our journey with the Arcane Bear!
==============================================================================
SELF PROCLAIMED STEEMIT AMBASSADOR
For Best Results: Resteem, Upvote, Follow and Comment!
TIjo @thearcanebear ~ Thank you for following along in our journey. We appreciate you!
Thanks for relaying the news. We probably won't even hear about on the main "news" stations in the States. It will be interesting to see if they even try to put forth a lame excuse as to the cause.
I spent 3 months in Costa Rica during college. Stay safe, my friend.
Crazy to see regular services go down.. food in refrigerators going bad. Stores doors closed. It happpened so fast. We got a lil safe spot for wahtsver happe s
Please keep posting on the reactions of people and the progression. It would be a good study on human nature.
Lucky
Panama has too many malls and they are "eating" energy like crazy. I don't know the reason in other countries.
We were at the mall when it happened. It lasted about an hour. I thought it was due to the downpour we were having.
It was the first time in 10 years all of Costa Rica had no power! And we run entirely on solar, wind and hydro electric. How the heck did that happen?! I am assuming we send some of our electricity to Panama too,... we were all day, airports locked up and everything! just crazy. I was so glad my local place my face acts as currency and I can get a tab, i only had card while I was out... wtf
I was wondering if it had anything to do with the things I have been hearing about randsomewear attacks. Something to that effect feels right. ITs also very fitting with Mercuries aspects to Pluto.
not sure, it will take the next few days to hear the "official story" our community is the first line responders, no other info than we went down really! and so did many countries
Up here, as I'm sure you know, e-transfer was down for a few days. Not sure if it's back up yet as I seldom use it but I do know people were stressed because their money was in limbo.
They are testing the lines of connection. It seems like these are drill test, much like they were running anti terrorist drills on for intercepting hijacked planes on 9-11, just in the wrong part of the country.
Stay woke brother bear! Thank you for reporting
Thanks brother, get the news out there! with any luck we can rank for people searching for that too haha
Ha, I am telling you man nothing will surprise me in this world. Great that you prepare and always be. Like I always say your circus your monkey the other way your life your needs. Thank you for sharing have a good one.
Our pleasure, we are making sure our supplies here could last three months, probably 300$ in supplies in rice and oil with everything we have growing to make it thorugh rough patches, we have solar and 10,000 litres of water and a artiasn well fed by gravity
that sucks, but lucky for you guys, sounds like you should be safe in your little "fortress"!
Yeah, we are set, yet, its just me and the puppy, not really how we wanted to get stuckup here was alone! haha. Me and him would drop into survival mode fast.
The three #10 cans of Mountain House freeze dried meals I ordered arrived just in time I guess. Apparently all five well pumps servicing West Hawaii have broken down at the same time and it will be a week before they can fix the primary well. Getting super prepped for a crazy 4th !
Damn, they are testing shit all over, The interact lines in Canada have been down for two days, and this is how many people pay for mortgagues, electrity and the like, send and recive money.... Lines are tripping all over the world right now! Thanks for the Hawaii updates!
Oh my goodness!!!
Sharing to get the word out! Thank You for this heads up!
As soon as the internet came back online, it was time to check, and we werent the only ones! it was time to share, fast as possibe, get the news out
Keep us updated on how far and when!
@oilyshumblehome, @raincountry
Thank you! I will watch!
I read about a few different countries and cities that Russian operatives hacked the power grid . Do they know what caused this?
The story thats coming out I have seen is that because all these countries are interconnected, Panama used a bbunch more than it was supposed to brining the entire grid down, but we are still waiting more sources to see the larger story! as it included so many countries, none of which have a large mainstream media source, or are even that able to communicate with eachother easily!
wow, is it back on yet? That's quite a state of emergency I'm sure.... Hope everything is ok
yeah, we came backonline within the 12 hour mark! but there are reports of it having been from a solar flare surge now! looking out for worsesingn situations over the next what... 20 years?
ouch. sounds scary but it also sounds like your prepared. Good for you and keep fighting the good fight :)