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dashaun345@aol.com wrote:
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> wrcowan1@hal-pc.org wrote:
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>>Chris wrote:
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>>>"Steven (remove wax and invalid for reply)" <unspam@hal-pc.orgwax.invalid>
>>>wrote in message news:43253088$0$10627$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
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>>>>wrcowan1@hal-pc.org wrote:
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>>>>>Cellphones communicate with Cell phone towers which require power to
>>>>>work.  Many of them were damaged or even under water.  Even satelite
>>>>>phones were not working.
>>>>
>>>>Why would a satellite phone not work?  And where did you hear that the
>>>>satellite phones didn't work?
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>>>He didn't, he made it up. Apparently he wasn't watching the news where
>>>reporters were allowing victims to use their satellite phones to call loved
>>>ones....what a dope.
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>>Sorry but it is a real article.  Also just because a reports equipment
>>worked does not mean everyone's working or are not familar with that
>>concept.
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>>HOUSTON CHRONICLE
>>FRI 09/09/05
>>  NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS PARISHES
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>>By MICHELLE KRUPA
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>>The process, however, has been hampered by a lack of communication in
>>storm-ravaged areas. Cell service is spotty, Parish President Aaron
>>Broussard said, and there are too few radios and walkie-talkies to
>>direct information to thousands of police officers and armed military
>>personnel from around the country who are manning Jefferson streets.
>>Satellite phones don't work, he added.
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>>"We are having a tough time getting in touch with New Orleans," Maestri
>>said.
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> 
> Are you saying that lives could have been
> saved if local authorities permitted President Bush
> to lend them radios, walkie-talkies and cell phones
> prior to when Katrina landed?


Local authorities should have had their own equipment work.  They were 
given money from the Government for these type of purchases.  Who knows 
if they spent the money wisely or not.  Yeah, if it worked people could 
have been saved or better that relief operations could have been more 
effective.  Like by calling the state, local and federal authorities and 
apprise them of there situation and needs.  What does matter is that 
they work during andafterthe storm.  Prior to the storm is all academic. 
  Maybe they should haved tested prior to the storm.

Who knows why it failed.  Could be that they bought crappy systems. 
Could have had them hooked up wrong.  Could have been affected by the 
storm.  Equipment can and will fail for whatever reason.

MRC