[BurbankKarl]

I was hearing how they were delivering 500 generators and 200000 gallons of fuel to power up the cell sites...that is the first thing they are going to get up and running....sounds like your friends area already has some cell service...

without the cell service, its a news blackout....word of this will spread overnight..

[geopyg]

How about HAM radio? I thought these guys were still very much around for this kind of thing. One would think four or five deep cell marine batteries with a few solar chargers could keep them running indefinitly?

[prisoner6]

I don't quite understand the cell phone thing. It's probably good to get it up and running, especially to keep communications with rescue crews. BUT I would think rescue crews would be better off with radio comms. Plus how do people who stayed behind with cell phones get them recharged?

FWIW I still use CB (it's better now that most of the nutz are gone. Kinda like the way it was before they came.) and my family uses FRS for low level comm, although it isn't as good as some claim.

The Wife and Kidz are also familiar with shortwave. Although we aren't hams we still use an old RS DX150 receiver and sometimes check in with the local hamfests.

prisoner6