Lloyd wrote:

That must be a work of fiction. During the whole Katrina aftermath,
I never saw one amateur station in operation, nor do I know anyone
who did. Amateurs were of zero help during the emergency,

Well, I guess the reporter that wrote the front page article in the Wall
Street Journal about how helpful ham radio was got chumped and lied to
by all the people he interviewed for his story.

and the public got most of its personal information over the
internet.

Now, that's interesting as most internet traffic goes through the telco
central offices and many of those were either under water, had no
commercial power and/or were out of fuel for their generators...