Anyone here in NOLA?

[Allison]

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>Subject: Anyone here in NOLA?
>   From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
>   Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: Classic Computers Mailing List <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>
>I hope and pray that no one here got stuck in the nightmare that is
>unfolding in the South.  This is a calamity of Biblical proportions, and
>something I'd only wish on people that I truly hate.
>

Being an active ham I sometimes work the traffic nets on VHF.  For a disaster
of this magnitude and local comms bing munged badly that amounts to handling
"health and welfare" traffic either originating here in MA or desitined for 
down there from here.  There are more local to that area hams active in 
establishing local comms so that messages can move in and out of the area 
as well as local coordination of agencies (FEMA, Local gov., Red Cross, 
Salvation Army and others.).

I happen to have traveled to the hardest hit area a few years ago and 
as it is none of the known landmarks are standing.  This will leave
a lasting effect greater than Camile did many years ago.

Allison