For those of you good naturedly joking about this, let's not forget lessons learned during Katrina. I'm sure these will mostly end up with emergency services groups, military, etc. but if I had deep pockets I'd buy one. Remember the family that got stuck in Death Valley recently? I bet that dad wished he had some sort of communications that used satellite hook-up. (They may have cell phone towers in Death Valley, but I wouldn't count on it.)

If the New Madrid Fault lets go any time soon, there will be a lot of midwesterners that will wish they had something like that.

Unfortunately, I don't see one becoming part of my BOB anytime soon. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />