Communications during an emergency

[enjoy the ride]

I was a telephone operator when in college when there were still places where you called an operator in a town and told her the name of the person you wanted and she would call them, connect them to me and I would connect the peron on my end to her- so you had to have 4 people to make a call. The town operator had a phone in her home.
I can remember party lines too- going on and asking people to vacate the line so the police or fire could call. Or one call that someone wanted to interrupt a party line saying it was an emergency and about 20 people ended up on the line screaming at each other.

 

[Beekissed]

I remember party lines!

Um, what's that?!

Oh, the younger generations.

 

[purplebaby7]

I knew I forgot something.

Cell towers can go down and then no cell phone.

Cell networks can get overloaded. Anyone remember trying to make telephone calls on Christmas or Mothers Day and not being able to get through.

that is what happened in ny & long islnd on 9/11. cell service was impossible to achieve, it was overloaded.