[BC] Tornado hits ERI's old area

[Barry Mishkind]

At 06:04 AM 11/7/2005, Mike McCarthy wrote
>Problem is the CO switch probably could not handle tens of thousands 
>of calls at once. Limited call outs like the FD example are limited 
>to maybe 100 calls.  Then comes the who gets called first and how 
>that is determined on less than a few seconds questions.

         Simple answer: Cell phones all monitor the
         cell site whenever turned on.  Simply
         have each cell phone "listen" for alert
         codes - not unlike EAS actually - and
         the equivalent of, say, TOR just makes
         all phones RING (regardless of vibration
         setting) and display TORNADO! or
         perhaps the location.




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Barry Mishkind     -       Tucson, AZ    -   520-296-3797