What I learned from the Nashville Bombing

I can’t imagine living where bombs are a frequent occurrence. I live 40 minutes from where the Nashville bomb went off on Christmas morning, and that was close enough.

It wasn’t just the bomb, it was the confusion and lack of communication that caused terror.

Who knows if the guy who killed himself, injured three, and damaged a lot of downtown buildings had a cyberattack in mind or if he was suicidal and wanted to demonstrate how much pain he was in. But knocking out the emergency 911 system in a large part of the state and up into Kentucky was unsettling.

It took hours for the information that 911 was down to get to me and my friends because many of us had no internet. Many also had no phone service at all.

Lesson 1: Get a landline or keep phone and internet service on two different carriers.

Before we knew who did the bombing, losing access to 911 looked like a phase one event. Now that no one could call for help, was some other attack planned?