[JMS] How's are friends down south doing?

[ronnie.hull]

Thanks for the concern Don.

Yes I am fine. We didn't get nary a drop of rain nor any wind out of it up 
here in Shreveport.

ALL of the larger parking lots up here are full of refugess in cars, trucks, 
vans and RV's. ALL of our shelters up here are full. Traffic is hell.

I just heard from a friend of mine in the Guard down in NO and he says 
several streets in the eastern part of NO are totally clogged with floaters, 
which are starting to reek pretty bad. Worst, the Gators and Turtles are 
starting in on them!  They are not going to start trying to recover bodies 
until they have the entire city evacuated which could be early next week.

The entire city is pretty much wiped out. And they have not even begun to 
look into the small communities in the outlying areas. 

Our entire paging system ( that is what I do ) is off the air across south 
louisiana, because our link transmitters were in New Orleans. I'm quite sure 
that sometimes in the near future, I will be headed down there.

Gasoline is already short up here. I have told my wife and daughter to stop 
and top off tanks every single day. You can't buy bottled water here as the 
Red Cross has pretty much got first crack at it.

I'm a Scout Master and my troop is gathering blankets, towels, washclothes, 
and personal items to take to the big shelter at LSU-Shreveport this comiong 
saturday.

This is a horrible blow to our state. But then again, our brothers and 
sisters in Mississippi and Alabama got it pretty damned bad too.

I have not been able to get in touch with K5QLH who is one of my AM buddies. 
He actually lives outside of Baton Rouge, so most likely he is just out of 
power, as they did not get a lot of water there.

They are saying the death toll could realistically reach 5,000 or higher.

I'll keep y'all posted

the Lambda is working GREAT

freind Joe, ACU beat me out of that little 90800 on ebay LOL

73's y'all

red beans and ricely to ya from Louisiana

Ronnie







---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Don Buska" <D.Buska at Advantest.com>
To: "The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector" 
<james_millen_society at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:21:50 -0700
Subject: [JMS] How's are friends down south doing?

> Well I hope all is still going well for Ronnie down in Shreveport.  I
> know you're a ways up the river and shouldn't have experienced much, 
> or anything, in the way of damage.  Still I guess we can expect a 
> mass migration of people from down south seeking shelter up your 
> way.  Hope all is going well Ronnie.
> 
> Do we have any other JMS members down that way?
> 
> Listening to the news yesterday I heard the reports that the Police were
> without communications.  What an opportunity for a solar powered ham
> repeater to be dropped on one of the higher downtown buildings.  
> Most of the newer ham HT's can us standard AA or AAA drycells.  So 
> HT power should not be a problem.  Wow, would that be a real 
> promotion for the effectiveness of Ham Radio to be able to assist 
> the whole police department with their communications. Much needed 
> right now!
> 
> Anyhoot, that outside the JMS's purpose.  Just hope Ronnie is doing well
> and plugging away at the Lambda power supply.
> 
> 73
> 
> Don N9OO
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