[svlug] Earthquake

[Alan]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:53:01 -0700, conover at rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:

>
>I don't think the cellular system in the BA worked that well,
>considering it was only a "moderate" quake, with no infrastructure
>damage.
>
>I had my phone on the serial port on one of my Linux boxes, and used
>it to send text messages, and dial a VOX number.
>
>The text messages seemed to have a much better chance of getting
>through than the VOX dials.
>
>	John

I will never understand people who will jump on their phones in the immediate wake
of a natural disaster for trivial calls, meanwhile possibly obstructing legitimate life-or-death emergency communication needs.