Code Red
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
Welcome to the Jacksonville’s Northside Information Blog
Hello everyone! This is the first post on the Blog. We hope to give each of our viewers valuable information, resources and stories from and about Jacksonville, Florida’s Northside of town. For purposes of this blog the Northside of Jacksonville will comprise those areas in the following zip codes: 32202, 32204, 32205, 32206, 32208, 32209, 32218, 32219, 32220, 32226 and 32254. We will report on where to eat, where some interesting places to live are, where to play and much, much more. So, stayed tuned and participate with your fellow northsiders!
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- Gunshots fired on North Jacksonville street February 4, 2012Multiple shots were traded Friday night on Fernway Street near Norwood Avenue, but no one was hit in the spray of bullets, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Bullet casings littered the North Jacksonville street following the 8 p.m. shooting as police interviewed a number of people, said detective M.E. Pichardo. “We are still talking to a victim […]Dan Scanlan
- No danger from suspicious package at Jacksonville airport cargo terminal February 2, 2012Suspicions about a package found at Jacksonville International Airport's Fed Ex cargo terminal Thursday were unfounded and it was returned to the company after a bomb squad inspection. No flights or other operations at the airport were disrupted apart from the closing of the cargo facility and surrounding businesses on Pecan Park Road in the southeast p […]Dana Treen
- RealSense income tax prep comes to Jacksonville's Main Library February 1, 2012The RealSense Prosperity Campaign, a United Way of North Florida initiative to help train taxpayers to prepare and file their own income tax returns, brings its BeeHive/MyFreeTaxes program to the Jacksonville Public Library’s main branch from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday through April 11. read more […]Dan Scanlan