Sub_Umbra
Flashlight Enthusiast
In that case use your cell phone. When the crap gets really deep use text messages on your cell phone as they will get through when voice won"t. I've already lived through this to the Nth degree -- trust me on this.True, but I was thinking of intelligible communications vs static spelling out S.O.S.
Probably a moot point in the US to be able to communicate out since if you're really in trouble, someone is going to notice or be within walking distance.
I commute, been doing it since 1986. There's been a few 'disasters' that has kept me from getting home in a timely manner (landslide, earthquakes, floods, traincars with hydrazine derailed). A few of those times landline and even cellphone communications were down for most of the day.
I was thinking more of communicating with others not so much for emergencies but to reach family.
Anyone see "Sudden Impact"? That movie makes me want to buy an off road motorcycle so I can get out or into town in an emergency when all the freeways are gridlocked.
If you want to 'just reach family' in a casual manner in a real emergency you're heading in the wrong direction -- no matter what happens. Casual just won't work.
If connecting with family in an emergency is your concern you must set up a network where you call (or text) just one relative and then have them call all of the rest of them and tell them that you are OK. Set that network up now. Trust me, I've already been through a catastrophy that overloads the phone networks for weeks. Set up your text net before it hits the fan. Text will get out when nothing else will.
My stuff about expedient transmitters was for...expedient transmitters. Don't go there if you don't have to.
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