[Myrddin]

If you can find a business office with a multi-number PBX, that might allow you to staff a hotline with a common phone number. That will help multiply the effectiveness of your efforts. Have the TV station and a local radio station announce the phone number after the hourly news breaks. I suggest this as more people are likely to have a standard radio or TV than active access to the internet. The hotline can coordinate both collection of missing/lost, but also act as a clearing house for the "found" persons when you have an update. Good luck. Leaping into the fire of emergency services communications can be a real eye opening experience.

[uncitizen]

I don’t have experience with anything like this and am doing the best i can. I appreciate your ideas, but just don’t know if i am capable of handling staffing a hotline. I’m just one person and since i’m new here i don’t have many friends yet that i can recruit for help. Those friends that i do have and many of my husbands employees are in trouble and we’re trying to help them with whatever they need.

So i am afraid i may only be able to help in the limited way which i mentioned. If i don’t get many freepmails of missing people needing to be found, i will do what i can to be useful from inside my place. It’s raining again and so i can’t go out and don’t have a car.

Thank you so much for your help! Don’t stop coming up with ideas please. I will make every effort t do what i can to help until this thing is over.