I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but there's been no mention at all of Ham radio in regard to the disaster in Florida. Not even the ARRL.ORG site makes so much as a mention of it, and I've deep-searched the news using Google News Search, Yahoo News Search and found only ONE news article that even mentioned ham radio operators in the context of the hurricane and aftermath, and the link to that article in the Sun-Herald seems to be dead.

Is it possible that ham radio has quietly become irrelevant to the emergency operations plans of municipalities? I know for a fact that we've had a few large-scale emergencies where I live and not once did anyone at the command center propose bring in the ham radio operators, and even though I have a license and even carry a portable most of the time, my concern is that I'm just carrying extra weight.

Does anyone have any news of actual ham radio activities down in Charlotte county in support of emergency operations?