KC2iXE Said:
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Did you guys CONTACT your hams? I know during that flooding, here in NYC we got a mutual aid call to go to Orange County, where we were not needed. I would have gladly run down to Bucks county for the day!!!


Yes. I'm a ham operator myself. As a point of reference, we're about to have another major flood here in the valley, I just got back from the Emergency management meeting. Guess who wasn't there? That's right - our regional ACS (we don't do ARES/RACES here anymore) guy.
In fact, I tried to raise up the repeater that he operates, it was down, and the only repeater I could open had nobody listening.

We're opening a shelter, and health and welfare traffic will be via internet and nextel this time.

And, FWIW, it's more like a 72 hour assignment, not a day, and with the roads and bridges all closed, your efforts to get out here would have been thwarted. But please don't think that I don't appreciate it, it would have been nice to have someone like you there tonight.