Two emails came to my laptop this morning from the ARES Alert Yahoo Newsgroup. This group is sponsored by the RAC Field Services and is used to notify us when there is something that as ARES members we should be aware of…
The first email was just advising us of a couple of websites that have flood information that pertains to the Province of Manitoba…
http://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/floodinfo/
http://www.winnipeg.ca/emergweb/
There is nothing confidential in these addresses and they are the general information sites that is available to the locals as well as the surfers… If you want to see the same info that you will be hearing in the media check them out…
The second email was to inform us that the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg have requested communications assistance from Manitoba ARES due to the flood emergency…
I think that most likely your best source of news on this one will be CNN while the flood is south of the border and then CBC News once it heads north…
I am expecting that in true US Media fashion this will become a “non-event” for CNN once the flood waters head out of country… This was proven true in hurricane season and I doubt things will change in flood season…
From a communications standpoint I doubt the provincal ARES Groups will have the time to be posting updates… I will do some monitoring of the HF Bands and let you know if I hear anything that might sound interesting but I do believe most of the radio work will be done on VHF/UHF which puts them out of range of Ottawa…
I wish the Groups good luck….This is what they have been training for and hoping they would never have to do…
73bob
Tags: 2009 Manitoba Flood, amateur radio, Amateur Radio Emergency Service, ARES, Manitoba Flood, North Dakota Flood, Red River Flood
