[FADCA] I'm Alive!

[Chuck Hast]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:19:29 -0400, Doug Christ <kn4yt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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

Good to see your lines here, much better to see you 'tired and ripe'
than 'dead and ripe'...

Just remember that anything that is solid enough to hold a C5a or a
747 up is solid enough to do major damage when accelerated to
those speeds.

Are the SB people using the amateur repeater? If so I am assuming that
they have arrived with a good sized contengent of amateurs in their group?


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."