On the emergency vehicle runs into the evacuating town of Valmeyer
Illinois, during the 93' Mississippi flood, a ham accompanied each run
because EMS radio communications wouldn't cover the area below the
bluffs. But the amateur could communicate from below the bluffs up to
a repeater on the opposite bank of the river in Missouri, and the ham
at the dispatch could relay messages.

BTW, the town didn't make it.

But how often do you have a 500yr flood? (rhetorical question - K8MN
need not apply).

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