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<wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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> Chris wrote:
> > <wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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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?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>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
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> >>>ones....what a dope.
> >>>
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>HOUSTON CHRONICLE
> >>FRI 09/09/05
> >>  NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS PARISHES
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>"We are having a tough time getting in touch with New Orleans," Maestri
> >>said.
> >
> >
> > So you think the newspeople have better communications than our own
> > military? You really are dense. Funny how there were all thos newspeople
who
> > had no trouble getting in touch with people but nobody else could figure
out
> > how to do it...
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> These were not military people.  These were local officials who could
> not communicate as their emergency plan calls (no pun intended)for them
> to be able to do.  As to why news media equipment worked andhte local
> officals did not, who knows.  Perhaps the news people spent millions on
> theirs butthe locals only spend a few thousand.  And before you even get
> there, Local authorities got huge grants to buy equipment to be used at
> a time like this instead many of them (not saying this parish did)
> wasted it on unnessary items.
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> MRC
( battered wife defense  )
Yeah, they deserved it.........