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...that commercial phone lines will fail, cell-phone towers will topple, repair teams could take days (or, more likely, weeks) to show up and the National Guard will come packing guns but no walkie-talkies. "In the end, you can only count on yourself," says deputy mayor Greg Meffert, the city's chief technology officer and a onetime tech entrepreneur. Like every other city employee, from the mayor on down, Meffert is worried that the "rookie levee system"--untested since repairs began--could fail again...
...huge headache yet again. During Katrina, New Orleans overnight lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...
...avoid being caught again "with our britches down," Meffert says, he not only has Plans A and B for emergency communications but also Plans C, D, E and F. He has moved the backup generators to higher ground; installed a wi-fi system downtown and backed up "hot spots" like city hall, emergency operations and the police command center with solar chargers; brought in wi-fi-compliant phones that allow emergency management to text message as well as make calls; and wrangled four vans with satellite uplinks in the event all else fails. Finally, he got what he jokingly refers...
...yard relay race--Won by Yale; Sachs, Young, Parker, Meffert; second, Harvard; Wightman, Jorgensen, Dillingham, Parker. Time...
...free style events and G.L. Jorgensen '34 won in the 220-yard free style swim. The Crimson led 28 to 26 at the start of the relay, and Parker failed by only two feet to overcome the lead which the first three Blue swimmers had given their anchor man, Meffert...