[FADCA] I'm Alive!

[Doug Christ]

What a storm!!!! This large brick Courthouse my office is in trembled during
the height of the storm. Bill wasn't lying when he stated we took a hard,
hard hit here.

My antennas where almost stripped clean off of my tower. I would have bet
the house on my satellite dishes being anchored more than enough. Anchor
bolts imbedded in concrete were pulled out. The dishes did not blow away,
they were re-aimed leaving them useless.

I have restored all of my voice repeaters which are being heavily used by
relief operations. The Southern Baptist have move into the region and are
providing mass feeding for our area. They do amazing coordination through
the repeaters. I got the phone patch back up this morning and that is about
to be worn out due to the heavy use.

It was good to see Bill and the dozen of other hams who arrived to help. I
was able to snag a generator from one of the guys and Bill helped me wire it
into the house which made my wife very happy. I was the walking wounded
having only about 10 hours sleep over 5 days. I don't what was better after
the generator was running, a 6 hour night sleep or the shower the next
morning.

More later guys. I busier than that old one arm paper hanger.

Doug/KN4YT