No
one chooses to be a victim of a natural disaster or other emergency situation.
We can, however, plan to minimize our exposure. We try to prepare with backup
plans and emergency safety kits. We
purchase insurance for our house, belongings and cars. Houses are built with rooms for different
natural disasters. But we can’t prepare
for everything.
A part of the
preparation that can be forgotten is ensuring our landlines remain intact. The
landline provides an insurance line.
When people are cutting off their landline service and purchasing
insurance on every electronic device, they are forgetting that the landline is
an insurance protection plan for their lives.
Landlines
are generally more effective than cellphones in emergencies. They are familiar
to older household members and their use can be taught to younger children with
ease. Landlines do not go down when the power goes out. Not all cellphone
providers have E911 that directs your calls to a local response center; your
call for help may be sent to a regional center for routing, costing precious
moments.
In
May, 2013, the central region of Oklahoma experienced severe thunderstorms,
flooding, and several devastating tornadoes. Large swaths of land were ruined by
nature’s raw power. Directly affected cellphone towers were incapacitated and
the sudden influx of calls for help jammed the remaining ones. That and local emergency responders and the
civilian leadership scrambled to find landlines to coordinate their efforts.
Human lives hung in the balance.
This
is but one set of incidents of many. Citizens in the large cities and smaller
remote areas of the country are already well aware of the importance of
maintain a landline in case of an emergency. Despite increasing acceptance of
wireless as the primary telephone, many people not living immediately in the
very large metropolitan area maintain a landline as their lifeline.
If
disaster struck, would you be prepared?
Keep
your landline as your insurance plan and contact National Access Long Distance
to save money on your long distance services.
