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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (249555)9/5/2005 1:24:22 PM
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>>> The communications infrastructure always fail.

Not on this level. I can't think of any major hurricane that left fire, police and emergency communications down this long -- other than Camille -- which was 35 years ago.

Some of the largest hurricanes have left communications down for some period, but these facilities are typically reestablished within hours. Certainly, in a major city, it is difficult to understand why such recovery has been impractical in 2005.

>>> When Alicia hit Galveston, communications were the first to go.

Alicia also hit Houston hard and there was no loss of emergency communications there. While I do recall that Galveston Island was cut off for telephone communications from the mainland I do not recall major, long-term problems with emergency communications.

Can you think of a major city having all its emergency communications cut off by a hurricane? Miami? Houston?
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