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September 9th, 2005
Posted by Paul Smith

Hey, the Washington Post has a nice piece on us.

“They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, and they are just finding each other in the last few days,” Dearman said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when they connected. “They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on the back. You’d have thought I was really giving them something that cost a lot of money,” he added. Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment. People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped out in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for shelters that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb towers to hook up radio antennas and set up the networks. “We are basically completely bypassing the phone system,” said Matt Larsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar stool with his laptop at Dearman’s kitchen counter.

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