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Get prepared with communications gear. DON'T WAIT.
A little Cobra CB radio with AM//SSB is relatively cheap for your car(s). A Wilson 1,000 mobile antenna with magnet mount (no drilling) or trunk lip mount (no drilling) is also cheap - and VERY reliable. I use this antenna on my truck!
For the house, you can take a CB out of the car, hook it up to a 12 volt power supply or even a car battery, and run it in the house. For a home antenna, you can grab a small antenna for $39 - $60 but you also need coaxial cable to run from the CB in the house, to the antenna outside.
DON'T WAIT. Get something now because they're not saying this crap about the Internet being down for weeks or months, for no reason. There's skullduggery afoot. Prepare!!!!
MY COMMENT: Me and my family have a SURVIVAL PROTOCOL. If the internet AND/OR power grid ever goes down, longer than 8 hours, you need to "HUNKER IN THE BUNKER" meaning it is SHTF time, and be ready to defend yourself, private property AND essential assets!!!! No if/and/but, it is grid down time, be ready for the worst!!! That said, yes, have EVERYTHING YOU NEED in advance before hand. Extra fuel and stabilizer, generators, wood burning stove for winter, propane cookers/heaters, 12V batteries and inverters, guns/ammo/cleaning kits, long-term food storage, access to clean water & filtration/distillation systems, rain water collection, plenty of sanitation supplies, OTC medication and medical supplies, whatever it takes to survive off-grid and hunker down with, long-term. The internet and/or power grid failure is a RED FLAG indication to be ready for war, or that a crisis is happening nearby!!!!