On 10/12/2016 11:06 PM, Janet B wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:11:43 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>> On 10/12/2016 7:47 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 23:32:11 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't see her house in those photos, I was thinking of publishing the
>>>> site for those of us who have been worried for days now. I don't see
>>>> a sign of the flooding I feared. I don't want to be too quickly
>>>> optimistic, but cautiously I wait a note or a phone call.
>>>
>>> After this, Jill may re-think her anti-cellphone stance. Not being
>>> able to contact family, neighbors, authorities, or workmen to fix
>>> something for 10+ days during an incident like this can be
>>> frustrating. And I doubt there are any working pay-phones within 5-10
>>> miles of her house (pay phones are pretty much extinct here).
>>
>> I don't have a landline, and the first thing I found was that the
>> cell phone service was out, too.
>>
>> Interestingly, you could still text.
>>
>> nancy
> In recent years, when you hear emergency management people speaking,
> they stress using text only and not trying to telephone.
> Janet US
>

lower bandwidth per unit of information, and tend to limit the
non-information communication. Just the facts, Ma'am.