Urban Survival - Communications Following a Disaster

Following either a man made or natural disaster, normal methods of communication are frequently damaged or clogged with calls. Preparing in advance can reduce the stress of the situation and improve your chance of survival. Remember these points.

• Cordless phones require electricity to operate budget.
• Old, rotary or push-button phones may still work, even if you have electricity, in order to lose your home. I recently purchased one of these phones in a secondhand shop for $ 5.00.
• Mobile phones may still work when land lines are below.
• It is often easier to telephone from a disaster zone than inside. A family contact outside your area is important.

Before a disaster, it is important for all family members to agree to various area bulletin boards, where you can leave written messages. These can usually in grocery stores, to find public libraries and other public places. It is important to choose more than one site, because it is aPossibility that one or more of the building will not survive a disaster. It is also important to assign a family meeting place near a tourist site, which are destroyed during a disaster. Mail boxes, street signs and telephone poles can not survive sitting. According to an earthquake, a flood, a tornado or a hurricane, the familiar landscape is so changed that it is unrecognizable. Choose a fixed reference point, which is not swept away by flood, fire, wind or.

CommunicationHer family important, even if it is a way communications. A portable radio is invaluable after a disaster. Try to find one that operates on either batteries or hand crank power. Many units available, which included a flashlight and a cell phone charger in the construction. Make sure the band receives the radio. AM / FM / TV audio is probably the best choice. In a national emergency short wave is a good bet.

Hand-held walkie talkie radios are anotherChoice. Radios are available that have a range of several miles and include NOAA weather alerts and local emergency broadcast channels. If family members separated for any reason after a disaster, you'll be glad you made this investment.

One is another, often transmitter / receiver missed a CB radio. Get a mobile device on a 12-volt DC power, not a 110 volt base station. With a compact radio antenna that will operate on any car battery and can be used for the same purposesChannels as walkie-talkies. This is the range of your communication. I have even used a CB radio is connected to two 6-volt batteries during a dry winter snow emergency during the 1970s. The batteries lasted more than eight hours.

Make sure that each member of your family with the operation of all communication is familiar before a disaster, and remember to check the batteries on a regular basis, if the storage of such equipment.