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Kurtz wrote:
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>>Chris wrote:
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>>>>Chris wrote:
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>>>>>"Steven (remove wax and invalid for reply)"
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>>>>>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
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>>>loved
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>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
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>>>So you think the newspeople have better communications than our own
>>>military? You really are dense. Funny how there were all thos newspeople
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> who
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>>>had no trouble getting in touch with people but nobody else could figure
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>>>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
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> ( battered wife defense  )
> Yeah, they deserved it.........
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Never said they deserved it.  The locals had a responsibility to their 
citizens.  They failed and reaped the consequences.  Hopefully they will 
learn the lessons from this tragedy and not repeat them.

MRC