Bill Edgar just called and said he had a couple of emails to me bounce and was calling to check on the situation.

I don’t know why they bounced, but we are experiencing serious problems here in the state thanks to Gustav. It moved out of Louisiana and up into Arkansas along the Arkansas/Oklahoma border and stalled for the last two days dumping up to 17” of rain here with wind, etc. There are numerous power outages all over…we haven’t lost power but K5UR did for quite a while as well as my son who lives in Little Rock.

Phone service has been iffy as well as email since I have a DSL connection.

We’re safe and dry (as long as we stay inside) but I don’t know the extent of any damage as the wx has been too severe with blowing rain to go out and look. At least the roof isn’t leaking!!

So, if you have sent me a message and it bounced, just please QRX because our infrastructure is taking a Gustav beating and will need a bit to recover or be repaired. We do have phone service and email back at the moment and hopefully it will stay on, but again it is sporadic.

73 Joel W5ZN