{"id":457,"date":"2005-09-05T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=457"},"modified":"2005-09-05T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T04:19:04","slug":"katrina-communications-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Katrina communications update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of yesterday, <abbr title=\"Short Message Service - Text Messaging\">SMS<\/abbr> messaging appears to be finally emerging as a reliable communication medium between the disaster-stricken areas in Louisiana and Mississippi, and the rest of the world, despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=453\">previous blackout<\/a>.  Voice calls into the area are still restricted, but some people in the disaster area are reporting success making outbound calls.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vzw.com\/news\/2005\/09\/pr2005-09-02c.html\">various wireless carriers<\/a> that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltel.com\/corporate\/media\/0905hurricanerelief.html\"> serve the region<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/cingular.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=press_releases&#038;item=1255\">offering free voice calls<\/a> in their retail stores that are capable of conducting business.   This service is free to everyone: you do <em>not<\/em> need to be a wireless subscriber to visit the stores and make calls as needed.  Verizon Wireless is also offering a free phone recharge service to its customers.<\/p>\n<p>As I know the people who NEED to know this probably won&#8217;t have a means to view this information, please do the favor of passing this information along to any loved ones who you contact (or who contact you) in the stricken area, so that they can in turn send word to those in need of a communication lifeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some info regarding communications in the Katrina-affected region of the US.  Pass on to anyone you know in the area, if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}