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San Diego Power Outage
If you don't know, there is a massive power outage that has most of San Diego county in the dark. My parents live there, and I can't reach them.
How do I contact my relatives in San Diego when their phones don't work since they went out with the power?
If anyone has any ideas, I would thank you for your help!
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If your parents do not have cell phones and even if they do it is going to be hard to contact them until the power comes back on. If they have cell phones and you are unable to contact them I would not worry. During power outages cell usage goes up and the system becomes over loaded. If you keep trying you will eventually get through.
As to having the emergency services check on your parents. Yes this can be done if your parents are truly in need of what we call a "check on the welfare call". Understand though unless one of your parents is in need of power for a machine for life support this is a low priority call and will take time before they can make the check and call you back.
With the advent of fiber over copper wire and wireless phones over hard wire phones the problem you are having in reaching your parents will continue. For your own piece of mind ask your parents to get one old style corded phone to plug in to one of the jacks in the house. In this way in future power outages as long as the phone company is in operation you should be able to reach your parents,
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Hi there,
If it is an emergency, such as medical conditions causing increased worry for you, you can and should call the local police/sheriff department. They can go and verify the well being of your parents.
Also, if you know any of the neighbors, they may have phones that aren't cordless, and still work.
If you don't know the neighbors, you can use this tool:
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... to find the neighbors who live near your folks. Some listings on that white pages site don't directly reveal phone numbers, so you might consider opening another window, and start looking the phone numbers up one at a time until you have success.... or you could assume that means their numbers are unlisted, and just go through until you find someone who IS listed.
I don't know how their neighbors are, but if someone called me, worried about their mom and dad, I wouldn't mind at all. I would go deliver the message, then invite them over to return your call.
Don't be afraid to ask. People aren't as bad as the news would have you believe. :-)
Good luck, and I hope everyone down there is OK!
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