[Osinski]

Ok good idea. The problem I have is what if FR is down during a crisis...like earthquake in CA or something else?

[MistyCA]

Whoaa.....you are right! No one seems to have considered that. I guess we have to try to rely on cell phones? Hmmm. In any event, in that case, the network would break down in certain areas. I think Butter Pecan covered that by broadening the phone list to include 4 or 5 alternative numbers. Plus, there again, there is really no reason to wake up all of America is California has an earthquake, is there?

[lelio]

Ok good idea. The problem I have is what if FR is down during a crisis...like earthquake in CA or something else?
(just catching up with this thread again so pardon me if this was answered by someone else)
You could get around this by having a FR mirror sites that constantly pull out information from the FRIM (FR Instant Messenger) (tm pending). Since it is just a small fraction of FR it wouldn't involve much data transfer.
To do so would require a buy in from JimRob as it requires the site to setup a special area for the FRIM that everyone can accurately mirror.