<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I have been watching Houston with interest</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Here we have a natural disaster of the magnitude far greater than the ems can handle</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Citizens with boats are using zello like cb radio </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">People are writing down their address and snapshotting on their phone and posting</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Then they are using a position reporting app to share their locations</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I am left wondering why there is not an app in this day and age that people can not post a rescue needed and a location</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Uber does this quite well</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I can hear on zello boats talking to stranded people over mobile phone</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Andrew <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 29 Aug 2017, at 10:49 pm, Robert Bruninga <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">For the first time in a decade I finaly clicked on some WX symbols and found it interesting to see the Rainfall readings from WX stations in Houston. About 8” for the last 24 hours on most of them.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I can also see a quadrant of Houston with zero APRS symbols around Cloverdale. Probably a big outage.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Hummh.. I wonder if anyone is on battery and is transmitting the Emergency OPower overlay to make it more obvious?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I also see three first responders driving all over the map:</p><p class="MsoNormal">KB5KSS-9, WB5TAD-9 and FM369-I using an Iphone.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4aPR</p></div>
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