John, I live in SC and seeing your email address you probably already know but having a good amateur radio setup sometime gives you better info than the news media. I have been into amateur radio since 2000 and we have had a few storms run through here and I have gotten so much good info listen to Skywarn storm watchers and ARES nets on 10 meters than anything the news outlets were putting out. One time the local news agency was reporting that multiple tornados in a particular area and we had an operator living in that area who had clear skys, stable barometer readings, no spottings had been called in by NOAA or through the Skywarn service... makes you wonder where they are getting there info.
As far as blaming the White House... The administration has been blamed for everything. The mayor jumped ship and so did the Governor of that state. Aside from that FEMA has ALWAYS been a joke. Hurricane Hugo (1989) in SC can prove that. Unfortunately Katrina followed suit. Hope everything is getting back to normalcy for you now (for however close it can be after something like that.) -Ray / KG4LAO John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In [email protected], "FJ Friloux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm right outside New Orleans > and have had Big Dish for ~15 years > (with 4DTV for nearly 7 years) . > Might have been nice to have a suitable generator > after Katrina to view the live feeds. > Only ran refrigerator and some lights > with a small 4000 watt portable gen. > At that time broadcast news was nearly > all exagerations or downright lies. > Wondering if any of you spent much time viewing > live feeds from here? The news always shows the "Scariest" part of any story, After all you got to fit it into a so many second segment and thus you go for the sensational. Though you faired well, Large portions of the city did not do so well. (you admitted that in fact in your post) I do not think there were too many lies on the part of the media (Of course I did not watch FAUX news) as I have my own sources within any disaster area. But I do agree that exagaration is the way of the media today. As for the lies... Well, yes, there were lies too, just not FROM the media. (Mostly from the White House) --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
