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From: "Albert Sanchez" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: Made it through hurricane Irene ok!
> Hello List
> Just a quick note to let you know that we made it through hurricane Irene
> without problems here in Greenville NC. Greenville NC is about 70 miles
> inland from the coast of Eastern North Carolina. It started raining here
> around 19:00 PDT local time on Friday evening and did not stop until 20:00
> PDT Saturday evening. At one point we had wind around 40 MPH and gusts up
> to
> as high as 70 MPH. Our power dropped out several times on Saturday
> afternoon
> around 14:00 PDT but was only off for about 10 minutes. There have been
> many
> trees fall and much flooding so that many thousands of people have lost
> power in the area but, again, we have been extremely fortunate in that
> regard. Our cable TV and highspeed internet and email was down for about
> 24
> hours.
>
> I put the newly acquired TM-V71A to work on Saturday; our local Brightleaf
> Amateur Radio Club has an active ARES affiliation and our net was
> activated
> at 07:00 on Saturday providing communication service between three
> shelters,
> the red cross and the Greenville and Pitt County Emergency Operations
> Centers (EOC(s) I was assistant Net Control for about 14 hours.
>
> Best 73's
> Albert Sanchez WA7FXB
> and
> Gerrie Sanchez KJ4DMV
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