Invitation to Butch Loper

Courtney's idea was so good I couldn't resist emailing Butch myself. Here's the text of the email and I look forward to his favorable response:

Butch,
In the discussion forum on our webpage regarding preparations for a Cat 3 hurricane, Mr. or Mrs. Courtney made an excellent proposal. It was something to the effect that the County should post and regularly update on its Emergency Management Web Page before, during and after a storm, information about storm plans, alerts, flooding, road obstructions, power, water, sewage, trash hauling outages, debris removal schedules, evacutations, and recommendations about evacuee returns. I wanted to invite you to join in the discussion by responding to the discussion under the topic ''Ready for Category 3 Hurricane?'' at the following link:

http://neighborhoodlink.com/osprings/discussion.html?nid=600930185&nneighid=485607453&nsupercity=404978840

in our neighborhood webpage which by the way is at http://neighborhoodlink.com/osprings/standrews

With best regards, I remain,

Sincerely Yours,


By Al Pettigrew

One-way out

John McKay added to Butch Loper's invitation:

I believe that something we should consider in the case of a cat. 3 or above is to one way out traffic on Belle Fountaine RD. We could leave open the BY-Pass road ( BIddix/Evans RD) until the last minute.




By Al Pettigrew

Walkytalky Consensus

I don't intend to stay around for a Cat 3 hurricane, but I will probably be here for lesser storms, depending on the surge prediction. If I am here, I will have one of those little $40 handheld family walkytalkies. I propose that by consensus we agree that the neighbor channel be Channel 1.

By Al Pettigrew

Butch supports the idea

However, he doesn't have county manpower at this time to implement it. So he will explore the possibility of using volunteer radio operators or CERT teams.

By Al Pettigrew