RadioBanter - View Single Post - Illinois Ops....help a lady in distress (Hurricane Katrina)

September 1st 05, 06:21 AM

Frank Gilliland wrote:
I'm cross-posting this to rrap since there seems to be a bunch of
horn-tooting hammies there who think that ham radio has the emergency
comm thing all wrapped up. Obviously they dont:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:28:42 -0400, (I
AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote in
:

This was on the Hurricane Katrina forum:

K DeStefano - Alton, IL
I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents
home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in
Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They
barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee
to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4
teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have
access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois
is 618-466-1392

Notice she didn't ask how to have access to a cb operator. Smart lady,
knew that would be a waste of time.