[FLham] Hams Gave Warning

[Radioguy]

Wall Street Journal
Interesting to note:

The New Orleans office of the National Weather Service issued a flash
flood warning at 8:14 a.m. Monday, saying "a levee breach occurred
along the industrial canal at Tennessee Street. 3 to 8 feet of water
is expected due to the breach." The media largely ignored it. The
NWS's source of information was ham-radio transmissions by the Orleans
Levee Board, a city-state agency. The 8:14 warning was the last one
the local office issued before its communications were cut off. The
statement was repeated only once more, at 10:52 a.m., by the National
Weather Service office in Mobile, Ala.