Hi all,

Daughter has an major paper to write an she needs to create an emergency situation. It can be either real or she can make one up. It has to deal with the different levels of government: local, state and national and how they would respond to the emergency.
What their various functions and powers would be?

How does the structure of federalism hurt or help in responding to the emergency?
How would the response to the emergency be different if the powers of government were not divided by federalism and separation of power for example, dictatorship?

I mentioned to her that I remember something happening back the late 90's with a satellite going down and all the pagers and cell phones went down. She liked that idea and wondered if it could happen again and if it did, would all the TVs go out now too as the stations are all now broadcasting in digital and not over the air. That changed here in the US back in 2009. And what about the Internet?

So, my tech friends... would it be possible for:

1. A satellite to go out and take cell phones down?
2. A satellite to go out and take cell phones and tv down?
3. A satellite to go out and take cell phones & internet down?

Or some other sort of emergency like this that she could use for her paper?? And if so, can you provide some details??

Thanks.