If some sort of emergency event happens in your area; after taking care of your immediate needs (medical or otherwise) - Send information to your loved ones as quickly as possible.
Send a quick message, with info such as:
- Your well-being
- People that are with you and their well-being
- Your location
- Your short-term plans (where are you going, when you will try to contact again, etc.)
During the tragic event in Boston today, cell phone voice service went down very quickly.
If you are able to get a voice call to go through, it is best to contact someone that is not in the effected region. Meaning if something happens in Utah, I plan to contact my Brother in Texas. He will then contact the rest of my family to update them on my well-being.
If cell phone voice service is down…
A lot of times, cell phone data (internet) and text messaging will continue to work.
Because cell phone data was still working, people were able to send quick text messages, post on Facebook, post on Twitter, blogs, etc. Social networking websites are the perfect place to quickly post your information.
This may be old news to some of you, but I hope that there is at least a little bit of information that you hadn’t known or thought of before.
