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Archive for January, 2010

The City of Jacksonville is offering a free service to residents to alert them about severe weather coming to your neighborhood. It is free to register and you just fill out the online form. Should there be a weather warning issued for your particular neighbor you will receive a record phone call. If you register with 2 numbers say a land-line and a cellphone then both of them will be called. Now that more and more people are using cellphones and replacing their land-lines with cellphone services it is a great way to stay informed about bad weather coming to your neighborhood. This service is automatic and is computer generated. Some examples include: evacuation notices, bio-terrorism alerts, boil water notices, and missing child reports. For this service to be effective you must make sure you have minutes on your plan! Now there is an argument for keeping a land-line in service. Remember that in the event of an emergency such as extreme bad weather cellphones may not work. Depending on the type of emergency your cellphone service may experience extreme overload, atmospheric interference that causes satellite disruption or a wide variety of things. It is a good idea to have a “REGULAR” phone hooked up to a basic land-line because the old phone service has an independent power source and the wires are underground! Regular phones are powered by the phone company lines not the power in your house or battery power. So go out to Walmarts, Lowes, Home Depot or even the Bellsouth store and get yourself a basic phone for a few bucks to keep in an emergency.

Click on the link to sign-up for this free service: https://login.coderedweb.com/codereddataentry/Default.aspx?groupid=EAn7CUhsxLfCqympNrd82g%3d%3d