[BC] disaster preparedness

[Barry Mishkind]

At 08:43 AM 11/9/2005, Phil Alexander wrote
>On 8 Nov 2005 at 8:07, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>
> > At 02:16 PM 11/7/2005, Jerry Mathis wrote
> > >I wonder how many people turn the cell phones off at night when they
> > >get home, or when they go to bed.
> >
> >          Doesn't matter. They can turn themselves
> >          on if so programmed.
>
>Irrelevant if they are in another room connected to a charger.

         In some cases ... but it is much better than nothing....

         Which is what most people have now.

>If you want maximum coverage from a single channel is would
>probably be a cable appliance that would activate on warning
>regardless of the TV or FM radio status. That should get over
>80% of the households in most areas.
>
>The question is who pays for the hardware?

         Which is the reason to do it in
         the cell phone.

         Costs for this increment are miniscule.

         Notice: I NEVER said to use the cell
         phone as the only path. But bang
         for buck it is the quickest, cheapest
         way to include alerting to the most
         people.

         The only way to get 100% is to have
         a law requiring everyone to wear a
         necklace with an alert receiver, perhaps
         one that even gives a little shock.

         Short of that, there is no better way
         to enhance the EAS activity, unless
         we assign Phil the duty to ride his
         horse house-to-house to warn everyone.

         ... his jet-equipped horse.