Alert Information
(posted 2:41 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, mc)
UTMB Voice Mail System
Voice Services reports the Voice Mail System is unavailable. Voice is investigating.
(posted 11:45 a.m. Monday, Oct. 6, mc)
UTMB Phone Services
Significant water damage has occured to UTMB phone wiring that serves the following buildings: University Hospital Clinics John Sealy Towers (Complete Outage) Old John Sealy John Sealy Annex Administration Building McCullough Building Clinical Science Building Children's Hospital Old Childrens Hospital Waverly Smith Old Shrine Burns Expect frequent service disruptions and/or intermittent service. Information Services is working as quickly as possible to replace and/or restore this wiring. Please report all individual phone problems to the IS Help Desk at x2-5200 or via e-mail at ISHelp@utmb.edu.
For information and resources
regarding the Hurricane Ike recovery visit:
utmb.edu/ike
In the event of disaster or emergency weather conditions:
- Call your supervisor; or
- Call the UTMB hotline at (409) 77-ALERT (772-5378) or toll free at (888) 772-5449; or
- Call the UTMB main operator at (409) 772-1011.
- Information is also available via the web at http://www.utmb.edu/alert. Should the UTMB web server go down, a second server is in place as a backup. It is hosted by our colleagues at The Texas Higher Education Network (THE.net), and will be available via UTMB's normal URL: http://www.utmb.edu. Additionally, an informational site will be activated at http://utmbinfo.com.
- Monitor local television and radio stations including KPRC/950 AM, KTRH/740 AM and KIKK/96 FM in Houston.
Information Technology Emergencies - in the event that there is a disruption of network or applications services, you can check the status of any given system by going to: http://www.utmb.edu/operations/daily_operations_status.htm
This page is posted by UTMB Public Affairs under the direction of the UTMB Institutional Emergency Preparedness Officers, Dr. Joan Richardson and Mike Megna.
