[Email1] Fwd: A Special THANK YOU from a Family in Kimberly Alabama

[John De Block]

Not to diminish the service provided here at all, but for the record, 
this gentleman's "it happened without warning" statement that "warning 
was short" is quite inaccurate.  The warning was issued at 9:24 PM and 
the tornado struck Kimberly at 10:03.  That is a full 39 minutes by my 
count!

Although he should have been aware of it much earlier, thank goodness 
you all got this word to him in time!  Obviously, it takes all of us 
working together to get the job done!

John


On 4/30/2014 3:45 PM, Ronnie King wrote:
> Greetings everyone. I would like to say thank you for a job well done 
> by all. Those who responded to the callouts and those who help on the 
> radio from their stations at home, work and anyplace that you talked 
> from.
>
> I am forwarding this email that I received from the Jefferson County 
> ARES group. It is from an individual from Kimberly.
>
> Thank you all again and enjoy this letter.
> *******
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *JVann Martin* <w4jvm.jvann at gmail.com 
> <mailto:w4jvm.jvann at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:21 AM
> Subject: A Special THANK YOU from a Family in Kimberly Alabama
> To: JVann Martin <w4jvm.jvann at gmail.com <mailto:w4jvm.jvann at gmail.com>>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> Let me say a big THANK YOU AGAIN to everyone who participated in the 
> recent weather events that came through Central Alabama. We cannot do 
> what we do without all of you stepping up and giving of your time and 
> resources to be a team player for Ham Radio and ARES activities. Net 
> control operators, storm spotters, weather reporters, served agency 
> assignments, etc are all needed each time we stand up a net.
> I am delighted to share with you a powerful _thank you note_ that I 
> received this week from a family in Kimberly and they wanted me to 
> share this with all of you. I also would like to ask each club to 
> share this thank you with your members because I know there are a lot 
> of people involved in ham radio that are not signed up for ARES or on 
> my email distribution list.
> Here is the thank you note from Mike Harrell and his family...
> *I'd personally like to thank you all. I work with the morris FD and 
> was on standby for the storms. The early reports I got from the net 
> could have saved my family last night as I live 1/10th miles from the 
> kimberly FD that was hit. We were lucky but as fast as this hit, 
> warning was short. *
> *Monitoring the net got me information much faster than the TV.
>
> Thanks to everyone
> Mike Harrell
> Programmer/Analyst
> CHS*
>
> AS YOU CAN SEE BY READING THIS THANK YOU NOTE FROM THE HARRELL FAMILY, 
> this is why we do what we do in Ham Radio. Ham Radio really makes a 
> difference and we should continue to broadcast the importance of this 
> hobby/tool to new and old operators.
> I think Mike Harrell says it best, THANK YOU ALL!!!!
> 73 and stay safe everyone.
> PS: I obtained Mike's permission to reboardcast his thank you note.
> JVann Martin, W4JVM
> Jefferson Co ARES EC
> 205 281 4728
>
>
>
> -- 
> Thank you,
> Ronnie King
> WX4RON
> 205.745.1199
>
>
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