{"id":1173,"date":"2025-10-14T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:47:37","slug":"communicating-in-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/communicating-in-an-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating in an emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fontstyle3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maungaraki Community Centre at 8:30 pm on Thursday 16th of October 2025<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Following a major event, such as an earthquake, the first thought of most of us will be \u201cI\u2019m OK but is my family OK?\u201d and we will reach for the phone to find out. Unfortunately a quarter of a million other Wellingtonians will have had exactly the same thought at exactly the same time so, even if the cell system is undamaged, it will still be overloaded and not available. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">This communications void can be bridged with an encrypted text messaging system, with GPS, called Meshtastic. The hardware is commercially available at low (compared to a cellphone) cost, and it is free to use. If you would be interested in joining an alternative way of communicating with family, friends, and community in Maungaraki please bring your family to a public meeting at <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">8:30 pm on Thursday 16th of October 2025 <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">in the large hall in the <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">Maungaraki Community Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maungaraki Community Centre at 8:30 pm on Thursday 16th of October 2025 Following a major event, such as an earthquake, the first thought of most of us will be \u201cI\u2019m OK but is my family OK?\u201d and we will reach for the phone to find out. Unfortunately a quarter of a million other Wellingtonians will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normandale.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}