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Verizon Drops 10,000 911 Calls During Blizzard
mschaffer noted a Bloomberg piece saying
"US regulators said Verizon Communications Inc.'s networks may have dropped a 'truly alarming' number of wireless emergency calls during a snow storm last month, and asked the carrier to investigate." The article says 10,000 calls failed to connect during one blizzard. Can't wait to see what all those AT&T migrators think.
911, Can you hear me now?
Cool! Amazing Toys.
nuclear detonation facilitated morse code?
I'm sure that would visible at a huge distance, regardless of weather. Sure it'd be a bit harmful to the sender, but nothing is perfect, eh?
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
always keep a piece of fiber in your pocket, that way if you get lost or stranded you can just bury it. then when the backhoe comes to dig it up ask the driver for directions/help.
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
2 weeks is of course the length of time a zombie can last without eating brains. Assuming that the zombies did not get a chance to eat any of your neighbors you can now go exploring for food. The remaining difficulty is with migratory zombies, so there is still some chance of "miserable death" occuring.
Fear is the mind killer.
I've actually had to try to survive a couple of nights in New Orleans in dead of summer with NO air conditioning, man, that was brutal.
You should have tried some blankets. I've recently read that they work wonders.
"... I'd sleep with no shirt on with blankets around my waist and be perfectly warm.
My grandma did it till the day she died at 90."
Thanks, but I don't want to try to picture that.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.