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"Kurtz" <the horror@HG.com> wrote in message
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> <wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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> >
> > Chris wrote:
> > > <wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
> > > news:4328e865$0$10624$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
> > >
> > >>
> > >>Chris wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>"Steven (remove wax and invalid for reply)"
> > >
> > > <unspam@hal-pc.orgwax.invalid>
> > >
> > >>>wrote in message news:43253088$0$10627$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>wrcowan1@hal-pc.org wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>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
> > >
> > >>>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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>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...
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > MRC
> ( battered wife defense  )
> Yeah, they deserved it.........

Battered wife...damn, and all these years I have been eating them plain....

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