# 18. Phone service will be erratic or non-existent. Pay phones will be
the most reliable.
COMMENT: “Radio oriented” people may forget that a telephone may well
be the most appropriate way to deliver a message. I recall an incident
where a ham was using a two meter repeater system to read off a long “laundry
list” of supplies that were needed in an emergency shelter while a
working telephone was sitting right next to him! Sometimes in emergency
situations (which this really wasn’t) COMMON SENSE goes flying out the back
door. - de k6soj