Night time disasters

[Yorkshire Andy]

Problem is as we found with the flooding a few weeks back the local mobile grid gets overloaded no chance of making a call, no way of receiving a text message Yet the mobile internet seemed to keep working..

[preppingsu]

Problem is as we found with the flooding a few weeks back the local mobile grid gets overloaded no chance of making a call, no way of receiving a text message Yet the mobile internet seemed to keep working..

The overloading of the mobile signal happens at serious incidents - think back to 9/11. People could not contact family to say they were OK.

As preppers we need to think and have alternatives in place.

[Malthouse]

Exactly, SMS is a nice system but very prone to falling over.

I really cannot see any benefit to waking each other up at 2am just to see if they work at night either, maybe I am missing something?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Problem is as we found with the flooding a few weeks back the local mobile grid gets overloaded no chance of making a call, no way of receiving a text message Yet the mobile internet seemed to keep working..

The overloading of the mobile signal happens at serious incidents - think back to 9/11. People could not contact family to say they were OK.

As preppers we need to think and have alternatives in place.

this wasn't serious as in the town didn't flood it came close but i resorted to useing one of the few remaining phone boxes to pass on a message via land line 60p minimum charge now the robbing so n so's

[Malthouse]

... few remaining phone boxes to pass on a message via land line 60p minimum charge now the robbing so n so's

Ouch!