NOTAM System Outage Halts U.S. Flights (UPDATED) - AVweb

If the FAA couldn’t easily fix the LODA issue which THEY caused by having the Administrator merely wave his magic twanger, what makes anyone think that a more serious issue like this could be fixed or prevented in the first place? Having to have the Congress include fixing it in a Bill on a totally unrelated subject is tantamount to criminality.

Computers are nice until they don’t work. I’ve been in FL when the power was out for days and stores couldn’t deal with figuring out how to sell the stuff they had in the store manually.

Heaven help us all.