[Alia]

These threads can perfectly resemble via cyber -- that which is going on in real time. People trying to do rescue, evacuations, report news, others trying to find others, others trying to laugh off the horridness of this Monster, etc. Your counsel is good. Keep this thread as productive as possible. Someone peeves you -- pass on by that post.

[Howlin]

Bump.

[Alia]

Addendum for those reading -- as to how I understand these threads to be working: Local stations will report more news (in the disaster "zones") than will be available via MSM. Ergo, those who are picking up "local signals" are relaying information here via phone or cyber.

During the 1987 quake of SF, I was in the Bay Area. For some strange reason, folks in the southern part of CA could NOT contact by phone anyone in the SF Bay Area. They'd dial their friends or loved one's number, and they'd get... me. But I could get their loved ones -- I could contact them. So, I operated a "communications relay system" between Bay Area and So California for almost 24 hours -- until the phone lines were up again.

Never figured it out, was amply glad to oblige.