Mike & Sarah, It is my experience that when there is some kind of emergency thing such as earthquake, phones do not work, but we were able to call out to a out of area number. Now that we are separated we should have plans to get information about each other if we can't talk to each other directly. My home phone number 562-947-4200 can be used for voice mail, in most cases will work because it is a Tracfone number with the voice mail located off site somewhere. So that we all can get messages there I changed the password to - 16229. Press * to retrieve the messages. Calling out of the area may be better bet. Alice and Charlie’s home phone may be a good bet. 503-977-3538 home 503-977-3538 home. If Rob and Sarah get a (503) number, we will add that to our contact list. The emergency email ( resnob1@gmail.com ) site has the phone numbers in the contacts list and could be used for messages that we can all see and access. The password is - 16229red This may seem stupid, but if something goes wrong, we should have some type of plan. Dad