[EAS] Government assistance

[Clay Freinwald]

Reminds me of the old saying about the left hand not knowing what the right
had is doing, despite being connected to the same body   
I belly ached on a FEMA conference call about the goal to force the purchase
of new CAP Capable EAS equipment prior to the FCC having Rules for them -
and - prior to having anything to connect them to...(They were not amused) 

Clay Freinwald

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Ruck

At 07:37 AM 9/18/2011, you wrote:
>Then putting two government agencies (FEMA + FCC) in charge of this
> > was a mistake. It's hard enough for one to know what they're doing.
> > Edward Ford
>
>When I was the emergency liasion for southern Maryland, the late, great 
>then Maryland Emergency Mgt Liasion Morris Blum, explained government 
>service to me.  I have found him to be spot on.  It works like this.
>
>We have neither funds nor authority to do anything.  But, we are 
>expected to do something.
>  ....

Edwin and Edward,

I have three comments:

1.  You are not alone.

2.  When you hear "We're from the government and we are here to help you."
run in the opposite direction.

3.  I wish Stan Harter was still around.  (Now SK, he coordinated EBS with
the State of CA OES.)

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

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