This also reminds me of Doug's advice that during a widespread disaster, you my not be able to have a voice conversation, but a text message will still go through.
But who do you send it to? I called two dispatch centers (county and state) and neither could accept a 911 text message. . .dohh. So if a 911 dispatch can't handle text, who do you send it to? My intent is to send it to a relative out of state who can then call 911 for me on a land line.