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2017-09-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Fairfax County Virginia has had text to 911 service since September 2015. And considering that Fairfax County was the home of several of the early internet companies in the 1980's that seems fairly late. I was able to quickly find this with a google search for my county name and "911 text". I

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2017-09-03 Thread lenron brown
I am going to create a folder on my phone for these types of apps. Never know what might be needed in the tool box. I keep a battery pack but thinking of getting another big one. Would be nice to find a nice sized bank with the hand krink On 9/3/17, E.T. wrote: > Until then, there are apps th

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2017-09-03 Thread E.T.
Until then, there are apps that can fill in the gaps. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com

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2017-09-03 Thread Simon Fogarty
ect: Prepare for disaster: How your smartphone can help in an emergency, USA Today Prepare for disaster: How your smartphone can help in an emergency By Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY Hurricane Harvey has knocked out a lot of the regular communications infrastructure in parts of Texas, but a walkie ta

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2017-09-02 Thread Scott Granados
Not very yet, it’s very new. I know they are looking at installing video and everything up here but that’s still pretty cutting edge. Towns are just starting to rally get in to unified communications in a big way. > On Sep 2, 2017, at 11:29 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Scott, > You probably can ans

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2017-09-02 Thread E.T.
Scott, You probably can answer this one. How widespread are the 0-1-1 call centers that support text? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did i

Prepare for disaster: How your smartphone can help in an emergency, USA Today

2017-09-02 Thread M. Taylor
Prepare for disaster: How your smartphone can help in an emergency By Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY Hurricane Harvey has knocked out a lot of the regular communications infrastructure in parts of Texas, but a walkie talkie-like app has emerged to fill the need. USA TODAY Patrick Tobias seals his phon