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Neighborhoods Important to Communication Projects' Future

by Carrie Bartoldus

Astoria, Or – At a special meeting with the Astoria city council on January 22nd, Sgt. Brad Johnston and Lt. Bob Johnson presented a plan to upgrade and consolidate the communications systems throughout the county. Basing it on a combination of a plan already in progress with the county, and using sites located in Astoria, Johnston and Johnson helped pull together the knowledge and resources of multi-jurisdictional agencies to present a plan which has the potential to consolidate 911 dispatch and help all communities throughout the county.

The thing that people found the most frightening throughout the storm was the inability to communicate. Neighborhood after neighborhood watched as lights went out and darkness spread. Reaching for phones to check on one another we found our lines were dead, our cell phones unable to send, and our radios were the only source of our information and connection to the outside world. All too soon everyone knew, on the coast we were isolated.

Neighbors relied heavily on one another for physical support as well as companionship and comfort in the chill and dampness that the next days would bring, and the devastating aftermath that followed. Often it was through the intervention of a neighbor that food came to a hungry one, heat supplied to any elderly person who had run out of wood, medication run to a needy diabetic or a group trip to the grocery store taken. Neighborhoods could be relied upon to pull together. Chain saws buzzing, cutting one another free from downed trees, clearing driveways, gutters, patching windows and rounding up stray animals. We did it together.

Now, once again, it will be our neighborhoods that we must rely on as they decide the fate of where, or if, our communication tower can be moved to a better and more accessible location.

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