[Lessismore]

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.

The phone companies implement traffic controls to ensure that calls for help from inside the disaster zone get priority. Calls into the disaster zone are considered to be less important.

[Alia]

Thank you for that data. I assumed but didn't know this for fact. Can I ask you another question? How come I got many calls from various parts of So. CA, but no one else I know did. Not my neighors. I asked around afterwards, believe me, I did.

These people in So CA actually DIALED their loved ones' (in SF) phone numbers, but got My phone. I even checked to see if maybe after I'd helped the first person, whether she'd been giving out my number. Not that I suspected her, given her character on the phone..but. Maybe, somehow in the circuitry.. my phone number popped up. Or maybe there was a rolling connect; and possibly others in areas surrounding the "hardest hit", got calls too?

Talked with two pacbell guys, and they thought it was curious too. I just figured I was blessed. And truly, I was glad to help.

[al baby]

The phone companies implement traffic controls to ensure that calls for help from inside the disaster zone get priority. Calls into the disaster zone are considered to be less important.


No what happens is the quake knocks the reciever off the hook and jams the lines gessss