Tech helps from Gulf Coast visit
September 17, 2005 by Mike Wendland
I’ve been down on the Gulf Coast all week helping with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. But I can’t believve how technology helped me stay in touch with other team mebers, folks back home and my work.
I blogged the whole trip, sometimes literally from the back of a pickup truck.
I used a Blackberry on the Verizon Wireless Network and a Tre0 650 smartphone on the Sprint/Nextel Network. Both systmes were rock solid. The cell sites along the Mississippi coast region of Biloxi and Gulfport were restored last week to almost 90 percent of what they had been before.
Then, coming back, I used a Verizon Broadband Anywhere EVDO card in my laptop. I’m filing this post from just near of Dayton as we drive north on I-75.
Great job Mike! You and everyone else involved with Woodside contingent in the relief effort should be commended. We’re proud to have you all as neighbors!
Tim Schmidt
Troy, MI