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You gotta sign up for Dodgeball.com before next disaster!
By WDavidStephenson | August 5, 2007
I heard a long piece yesterday on Weekend America about what people did and thought after 
the bridge collapse, including excerpts from people’s calls to and from the bridge trying to either reassure friends and relatives, or to find someone who might have been on the bridge.
As in countless other disasters of recent years, the volume of calls eventually brought the network to its knees.
What’s wrong here?
If they’d simply followed one of my “21st- century disaster tips you won’t get from government,” none of the agonizing wait to hear from friends and relatives would have been necessary, and the wireless bandwidth would have been available for those with real emergency needs.
If you don’t follow any of my other tips (and, IMHO, the others are all important as well) you really owe it to yourself, your family and friends, and to your community to do at least this one: CONTINUED….
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