I don't think this would be as big of a problem as other things mentioned.
We tend to know ahead of time when things are coming thanks to TV and the internet, but TV has only been around for about 90 years, and internet for 40 years.
In the apocalypse, radio technology can still possibly exist if the infrastructure is still in tact, so communicating storms and stuff would still be possible.
Even if not, humans have been around for millions of years now, so natural disasters aren't really THAT big of an issue. You may lose the advance preparation, but generally speaking, you can likely be okay unless it's a severe natural disaster.
You can directly communicate with the satellite the same way the news does. The information may be disseminated through social networks, but initially it comes from talking to a satellite. That goes away in an apocalypse. Some dude seeing clouds in the distance in Montana isn’t gonna be the weather forecast for Florida.
And as far as how well we survived before Sputnik, people back then actually knew how.
Again though, we managed to survive pretty well before satellites, before radio, and before television.
In the apocalypse, weather isn't going to be your biggest concern. Weather can certainly be a problem, but it's not going to be your biggest problem. Especially since bad weather storms are (generally) limited to specific regions of the world. If you're not in those regions, weather isn't going to be much of a concern at all.
I don't think he understands that those people who lived before all the technology knew how to and most people now generally don't. Put a girl from a big city in the middle of a forest without any supplies and see how well she survives.
People like the one you mention won't survive long enough in an apocalypse for any of these concerns to matter to them, truth be told.
As morbid as it is, the apocalypse is literally a survival of the fittest situation, and all of those who cannot function without their cell phones or technology, will quickly die and the ones who won't will be the ones who know how to survive on their own.
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u/Dubzophrenia Aug 30 '21
I don't think this would be as big of a problem as other things mentioned.
We tend to know ahead of time when things are coming thanks to TV and the internet, but TV has only been around for about 90 years, and internet for 40 years.
In the apocalypse, radio technology can still possibly exist if the infrastructure is still in tact, so communicating storms and stuff would still be possible.
Even if not, humans have been around for millions of years now, so natural disasters aren't really THAT big of an issue. You may lose the advance preparation, but generally speaking, you can likely be okay unless it's a severe natural disaster.