[ale] linux, electricity, and the internet

[parspe at hotmail.com (Patrick P)]

 I ran across this article today and the thought happen to occur to me that without electricity we have no internet. 
 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html
If this were to happen tomorrow would we be able to keep internet communications up? Assuming of course that we had water and food. Email and IM are mostly centralized.

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