Re: Monitoring station response time

["Doug L" <vssdoug@xxxxxxx>]

I stand corrected

Doug L

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"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Doug L" <vssdoug@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> If an area is hit by a major catastrophe be it flood, hurricane or
>> earthquake it really makes little difference if the CS is local and goes
>> down with the rest of the area or if the CS is located in another
>> State,since if the power and phone lines are down locally then most
> signals
>> won't be going anywhere anyway, and even if they do the local authorites
> are
>> not going to be in a position to respond.
>>
>> Doug L
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> That is not always the case, My company is temporarily monitoring a few
> thousand accounts from several companies in New Orleans that lost their
> local central station. Also the authority problem that we all saw in the
> last few weeks in NO only affected a limited area compared to the coverage
> of those local central stations. As far as the phone situation its more
> often than not the phones WILL work all too well as I get to witness the
> massive amount of incoming signals anytime a hurricane hits :)
>
> BTW I heard today that Home Automation Inc in New Orleans had their
> factory
> totally destroyed although I haven't verifyed it yet
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