Check your airport's Web site for parking and cellphone waiting area information.
DetroitMetro Airport, for instance, has a newly expanded cellphone waiting area at the Smith Terminal, with 37-spaces next to the airport's rental-car facilities.
The Los Angeles project is believed to represent the largest commitment to the free cellphone waiting areas by a North American airport.
Aside from a few satellite phones and even fewer working cellphones, the area was isolated as relief workers scrambled to assess the security situation and address the vast humanitarian needs.
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"These last two or three years have been insanely gratifying," Mr. Leo continued, from a cellphone whose 973 area code he has not yet gotten around to changing.
In addition, alerts are issued for specific locations and automatically download to cellphones in an area even if the owners do not live there.
When his ingenious combination of a radio scanner and software alerted him to F.B.I. agents' cellphones in the area, he cheekily had a box of doughnuts waiting for them when they raided his apartment.
Cellphone towers in areas that experience heavy shaking could collapse or be damaged, experts say.
