Consider joining the Disasters Update Cellphone Text Message Group

[Ian David]

Here are links to the group:

Disasters Updates

For Verizon:
http://communities.vtext.com/group.jsp?group=disastersupd

For other carriers:
http://www.upoc.com/group.jsp?group=disastersupd

A place to post alerts to help keep people and nature safe to post valid advice. Disasters such as:hurricanes,flooding,tornadoes ,monsoons,earthquakes,fires,explosions,chemical spills, avalanches excessive snows and sadley terrorium, major highway closings, major vehicle pileups, airplaine crashes,mudslides and volcanoes. News about anything that threatens. False reporters quickly booted!
104 members


Also:

Gulf Coast Weather
http://communities.vtext.com/group.jsp?group=gulfcoasthur
http://www.upoc.com/group.jsp?group=gulfcoasthur

[WestHoustonDem]

1. Done! Everyone should sign up right now!

[Ian David]

2. I'm getting a lot of error messages. Message groups may be overwhelmed?nt

[WestHoustonDem]

3. I actually found I was already registered and

had to have them send my info to my phone.

[Ian David]

4. Been posting regularly to that group today. Meanwhile I got flamed on DU..

Apparently, when I posted to DU, I had a typo that said 1/2 of the dome had torn off, when in fact it was 1/12th.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4493924&mesg_id=4493924

Someone went off the deep end and tried to hand me my head over it.

They locked the thread just as I was about to post this reply:


I've got a whole lot going on over here, and unfortunately it is all too easy to leave a glaring error like that intact for a six-minute eternity.

I've got DU going, listening to CNN, and juggling back and forth between Cellphone message groups.

I suppose that if someone here on DU were using their laptop inside the Superdome they may have been momentarily panicked and endangered in the brief moment it would take them to glance up at the roof.

In any case, I'm watching DU, listening to CNN, and passing information along to people who have no source of information other than their cellphone and are actually in the path of the storm.

They have expressed gratefulness for both the detail and the accuracy of my messages to those who actually have a stake in it.

So, I regret, and apologize for, my six-minutes of inaccurate information given to people who have the entire internet full of information at their fingertips.

In fact, I would have corrected it sooner, but the Upoc website was having trouble, and I was needed to enter my text messages directly from my cellphone.

While my fingers were busy using the tiny little cellphone buttons to people with nothing more than their phones to get the news, I regrettably neglected my post here on DU for a whole six minutes.

I am deeply ashamed.

Please excuse me if I have devoted too much of my attention to those 104 people on the Disaster Update cellphone message group.
http://communities.vtext.com/group.jsp?group=disastersupd

I apologize to anyone here who I may have inconvenienced, or who may have become (more) disturbed by it.

[WestHoustonDem]

5. Nobody should flame you for trying to help

even if you get something wrong. Don't let them get to you.