Lew Hodgett wrote:

| Fortunately, none of that has anything to do with the necessity of
| saving human life in an emergency, a job which unfortunately fell to
| FEMA, which had been systematically stripped of it's resources
| since 2000.

Before that, even. During the floods of '93 I spent several days as
the volunteer operator of the FEMA communications center in the Hoover
Federal Building in Des Moines. It was a particularly easy job since
there was zero traffic in and zero traffic out.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/