Can we set-up thread to help ppl contact friends/family in disaster area?

[Ian David]

Cross-posted from the Louisiana group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=155&topic_id=2018&mesg_id=2018


Since some people are having trouble reaching long distance to contact Louisiana and Mississippi, (but text messages seem to mostly be getting through)I'd like to two things:

1) Ask people here on DU to post requests in the thread, and for others to volunteer to attempt to contact people.

2) Provide an email address for non-DU-Members to contact for message relays.

I'd suggest that someone set-up a "disposable" address on AOL or Yahoo for that purpose.

Also, does anyone have contact info for a HAM Radio group? I remember during the Los Angeles quake, there was a HAM Radio group that volunteered to help with that through CompuServe.

Thanks!