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Jul 11, 2008 4:25 pm US/Pacific

What You Need To Know About Your Phone

  In an emergency long distance phone lines often begin working again sooner than local phone lines. This means that your out-of-state contact is a great way to see if your family is okay. If everyone calls and reports to the contact then they can call the people you want to keep informed of your situation. Make sure everyone in your family knows the number of the out-of-state contact.  

Don't count on your cell phone. The increased traffic on cell phone networks can quickly overload wireless capacity.
But text messaging uses a different part of the cell phone network and it may be possibler to send and receive text messages even if phone lines are jammed.

If possible avoid making non-urgent phone calls after a disaster because the increased trafrfic can jam phone circuits.

Make sure you have phone in your house that does not require electricity

Keep coins in your go bag in case you need to make telephone calls on a pay phone.

After an earthquake, check all your telephones to be sure they have not shaken off the hook and are tying up a line.


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