From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Interesting comment George (Diesel Generators under water).

I recall when Shelley and I were driving down to Dauphin Island, that on
the ONLY road in/out, I noticed that all the cell phone towers were built
15-20 feet OFF the ground, as were the communication huts and power
generators, all up on elevated platforms.

You'd think that the people who understood that the whole area could easily
flood, would consider the same in New Orleans, especially since they're
below sea level there.

Also, I wonder how/if the cell towers were working that are on the tops of
the buildings (or if they got blown off with the storm)?  Also, wonder if
those generators are stuck in the basement, or are up on the upper floors
where the communication gear is positioned?

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Glenn M.
"Geo"  wrote in message news:431b3545{at}w3.nls.net...
> Nobody planned for the celphone network to go down because the diesel
> generators that power it were under 10ft of water. If they had planned for
> that, the generators wouldn't have been there or wouldn't have been
> underwater. Phone companies are very good at planning, but this was not
> one
> of the things they were ready for.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:431a55d4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> If you think the Mayor was without the ability to communicate to the
>> Governor and his staff, etc., then you are a fool.
>>
>> How many days did the Mayor, his staff, and the Governor have to plan the
>> emergency communications systems, etc..   Let's see it was only non-stop
>> 24X7 coverage of the big cat 5 hurricane coming for what 5 days and the
>> Mayor and Governor didn't have time to figure out some secure
>> communications.
>>
>> If you are right which you aren't, then you would be pointing up proof of
>> exactly what I've been saying.  The problems with the post Katrina
> response
>> were the principal fault of the black Mayor and black city government
>> combined with the incompetent white democrap governor of Louisiana.
>>
>> One things for sure.  The problems with the response weren't the fault of
>> some white guy 2000 miles away.  GMAFB.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> news:tikkh15a6bsi6b34irf20d5nus837rhohb{at}4ax.com...
>> > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:40:43 -0400, "Gary Britt"

>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >The MAYOR was NEVER out of communication.  The MAYOR always had the
>> ability
>> > >to contact people.
>> >
>> > It's obvious to me now that you've never lived through a hurricane.
>> > I'm not surprised, you're wrong about nearly everything, there is no
>> > reason to think you'd be otherwise here.
>> >
>> > There were no phones and no electricity.  The mayor couldn't contact
>> > anyone who didn't have a battery operated radio.
>> >
>> > >Like the Governor, and say call out the guard, put one
>> > >in each bus and then follow me.  That would be called
leadership, and
> the
>> > >blacks running the city had none.
>> >
>> > Phones were out in Baton Rouge, too, Gary. You really don't have clue.
>>
>>
>
>

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