RHF wrote:


Honestly - If everyone wanted and needed Emergency
Communications and the US Government wanted it's
Citizens to have Emergency Communications.

Then Every US Household and Every Car and Truck
would have one or all three of these :

1 - Family Radio Service (FRS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service

2 - General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General..._Radio_Service

3 - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio

Will you quit being a dip****? Have you ever been in an emergency e.g.
flash flood or wildfire? Do you think there are enough paid emergency
personnel to cover every street closure? To spot weather? To relay
information to the media?

Not everyone lives in the middle of nowhere.