[BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?

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Tell me, what happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?

We have several weather radios, two with SAME.  I have a portable  
scanner I take on trips, and it has a WX radio with SAME.

My wife is as much of a luddite as one will ever find, but we have  
practiced text messaging each other.  WHY?  Because when the balloon  
goes up, cellular goes down.  Text messaging goes on.

We have yet to pull the ripcord, but I am about to buy two satellite  
phones.  Yes, it is a bit expensive to just be in standby, but  
between my travels in rural areas, and the need for emergency  
communications, we need it.  They text too and inexpensively.  We  
have set up plans for out of area message drops, and that for the  
Philadelphia in-laws too.

We have an analog cell phone with many charged batteries and a dry  
cell pack for it in our go-kit.  We have several radios that have  
spring wound generators in them (Baygen) which work well, and are  
ready to go.  We have canned food, and bottled water which we  
rotate.  We have FRS radios, and are both hams.  We have the radios,  
and we have them on bands that are not likely to be taken over.

We have a good DOZEN UPSs, though that was never a good plan, and a  
back-up generator, plus gasoline we rotate.  After a few months, we  
refill the cars from the gas cans, then refill the cans.

We subscribe to the immediate county's emergency alert e-mails and  
cell phone messaging.  We take care of ourselves, and we don't expect  
the nanny state to come to save us.  We have food, water, and the  
means to find more.  We have ammo, firearms, and the skills to use  
them through extensive and expensive training.

Now tell me, what should GUBBERMENT do for us?

If these jerks don't want to be alerted, and don't want to have  
batteries and generators,  TVs and radios,  shouldn't they die and be  
removed from the gene pool?

You don't have to LISTEN to the radio.  You just need a NOAA radio.   
EAS is a joke, but NOAA will come through, IF you can hear at least  
three transmitters so you won't be left with no information if one  
goes down.

I ask again, what happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?

On Oct 22, 2007, at 6:32 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 28
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:51:27 -0400
> From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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> I can only tell you what they said on TV. "no one listens to radio
> anymore" Power was out so there was no TV and the cell was probably
> knocked out. This is why EAS is not all it is cracked up to be.
>
> R