Husker, if your on a hill put up an outdoor antenna hooked up to a 25 watt mobile. You'll be able to cover a fair distance from your home base station. If the grid goes down repeaters may not be online for very long. Simplex is the way to go.
People should learn from this event but most will go back to sleep five minutes later. Then when it happens again they freak out and expect da goobermit to save them.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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