Disaster:- suppose your cell phone did not work......

there are many ways now to contact family if you are out and your celphone is not working. you can call them at the house phone. if there are no house phone i can phone someone who has a celphone and relay my message to my family.

This is a disaster really. I will most likely ask for the help of the people around me to contact my family and friends to let them know about my situation. There's always a solution to any problems. Asking other's help is actually an act of humility. Seek help and you will find it. Angels and good samaritans will flock together to help you.

I would visit an Internet cafe and send my sister an email. Alternatively I would use a public telephone box to phone my mum. I went to New Zealand and bought a mobile phone to use whilst I was over there. I am not sure how well my current mobile phone works overseas. My last mobile phone worked when I was in Mexico. Considering I am from the UK this amazed me. Then a months later when I was back at home it broke and I lost all my text messages that I had got from my friends. Worst of all I lost all my list of contacts. So it pays to keep a spare copy of your contacts in a note book in case your mobile phone breaks.

If it was a disaster, and pay phones still worked, I would call out on one of those, but a lot of disasters affect phone lines, electricity, etc. However, if that was the case, I would locate the emergency personnel and get word out that way. And my family has always figured, no news is good news.