asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Asterisk Community Participant; Katrina Refugee

Hi All,

My family and I are doing well.  Thank you all for your prayers.

We are using this as an opportunity to rebuild.  I didn't think I really
needed to but God knows best and we will obey.

My family and I will temporarily be in Lafayette, Louisiana for a while but will
probably relocate to Houston, TX in the future. We already have my Daughter
registered in school here.

Lafayette is my old stomping ground so I'm already at home.  My Wife is
having a time with directions though.  She went half way to Lake Charles (wrong
direction) yesterday when she was coming back home from shopping.

My house, office, lab and 2 vehicles back in Chalmette, LA, St Bernard Parish
are swimming with the fishes, snakes and alligators along with all my computers
and Asterisk application development.  100% loss, but hey, we have our health. 
I have both homeowners and flood insurance so I should recoup most of my losses,
it will take a while to get back on track.  Insurance adjusters will not be able
to enter the Parish till the water is out which could take several weeks if not
a few months.

I was planning on speaking at this years Astricon conference in Anaheim, CA on
?Embedded Asterisk Systems? but have to resend the invitation at this time.  As
you can imagine, I have other priorities.

I will miss this opportunity to collaborate and share my work with this
community.  My FTP server is 8 feet under Lake Ponchatrain at this time and
foreseeable future.  My Internet provider is not online anyway but I am
committed and will get my work on-line as soon as possible.  I will keep up with
Asterisk development as I can and will jump back into the community when
available to contribute with focus and vigor.

I have bought and collected equipment since being in Telecommunications, VoIP
and Internet Technologies for 15 years that are irreplaceable but I will
re-build my VoIP laboratory bigger and better than ever.  If anyone has any
trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged electronic equipment,
please let me know.

God Bless.

JR Richardson

Call ServiceMaster :)

Depends on how much charge was left in the circuit as to what will
happened.  If it was saltwater, probably not.  Freshwater, there might
be a chance that after it dries completely that it will come back
online.  Won't know until you can test it.

Glad you and your family is safe.  I have a friend who's husband is MIA
still in Gulfport.  Quite a time there.

-Don
 

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Community Participant; Katrina
Refugee

Hi All,

My family and I are doing well.  Thank you all for your prayers.

We are using this as an opportunity to rebuild.  I didn't think I really
needed to but God knows best and we will obey.

My family and I will temporarily be in Lafayette, Louisiana for a while
but will probably relocate to Houston, TX in the future. We already have
my Daughter registered in school here.

Lafayette is my old stomping ground so I'm already at home.  My Wife is
having a time with directions though.  She went half way to Lake Charles
(wrong direction) yesterday when she was coming back home from shopping.

My house, office, lab and 2 vehicles back in Chalmette, LA, St Bernard
Parish are swimming with the fishes, snakes and alligators along with
all my computers and Asterisk application development.  100% loss, but
hey, we have our health.  I have both homeowners and flood insurance so
I should recoup most of my losses, it will take a while to get back on
track.  Insurance adjusters will not be able to enter the Parish till
the water is out which could take several weeks if not a few months.

I was planning on speaking at this years Astricon conference in Anaheim,
CA on "Embedded Asterisk Systems" but have to resend the invitation at
this time.  As you can imagine, I have other priorities.

I will miss this opportunity to collaborate and share my work with this
community.  My FTP server is 8 feet under Lake Ponchatrain at this time
and foreseeable future.  My Internet provider is not online anyway but I
am committed and will get my work on-line as soon as possible.  I will
keep up with Asterisk development as I can and will jump back into the
community when available to contribute with focus and vigor.

I have bought and collected equipment since being in Telecommunications,
VoIP and Internet Technologies for 15 years that are irreplaceable but I
will re-build my VoIP laboratory bigger and better than ever.  If anyone
has any trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged electronic
equipment, please let me know.

God Bless.

JR Richardson


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Mr Richardson,

I sympathize with american people after this disaster.

However If i was God I would feel remorse for all
people in the world in destitution because of
diseases, wars, starvation, ...

God should really feel remorse .

Thinks to all people in destitution in the world .

Harry

--- JR Richardson <jr.richardson@cox.net> a ?crit :
> Hi All,
> 
> My family and I are doing well.  Thank you all for
> your prayers.
> 
> We are using this as an opportunity to rebuild.  I
> didn't think I really needed to but God knows best
> and we will obey.
> 
> My family and I will temporarily be in Lafayette,
> Louisiana for a while but will probably relocate to
> Houston, TX in the future. We already have my
> Daughter registered in school here.
> 
> Lafayette is my old stomping ground so I'm already
> at home.  My Wife is having a time with directions
> though.  She went half way to Lake Charles (wrong
> direction) yesterday when she was coming back home
> from shopping.
> 
> My house, office, lab and 2 vehicles back in
> Chalmette, LA, St Bernard Parish are swimming with
> the fishes, snakes and alligators along with all my
> computers and Asterisk application development. 
> 100% loss, but hey, we have our health.  I have both
> homeowners and flood insurance so I should recoup
> most of my losses, it will take a while to get back
> on track.  Insurance adjusters will not be able to
> enter the Parish till the water is out which could
> take several weeks if not a few months.
> 
> I was planning on speaking at this years Astricon
> conference in Anaheim, CA on ?Embedded Asterisk
> Systems? but have to resend the invitation at this
> time.  As you can imagine, I have other priorities.
> 
> I will miss this opportunity to collaborate and
> share my work with this community.  My FTP server is
> 8 feet under Lake Ponchatrain at this time and
> foreseeable future.  My Internet provider is not
> online anyway but I am committed and will get my
> work on-line as soon as possible.  I will keep up
> with Asterisk development as I can and will jump
> back into the community when available to contribute
> with focus and vigor.
> 
> I have bought and collected equipment since being in
> Telecommunications, VoIP and Internet Technologies
> for 15 years that are irreplaceable but I will
> re-build my VoIP laboratory bigger and better than
> ever.  If anyone has any trade secrets on
> successfully recovering waterlogged electronic
> equipment, please let me know.
> 
> God Bless.
> 
> JR Richardson
> 
> 
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> I have bought and collected equipment since being in
> Telecommunications, VoIP and Internet Technologies for 15 years that
> are irreplaceable but I will re-build my VoIP laboratory bigger and
> better than ever.  If anyone has any trade secrets on successfully
> recovering waterlogged electronic equipment, please let me know.
>
> God Bless.
God Bless indeed.

Loosing the lab and everything in it I can certainly imagine will set you
back.
However, I also believe that the knowledge you acquired is your best bet to
rebuild and
improve on what you had. Just a though I had that may give you little
encouragement.

Best of luck to you and your family.


Regards,

Senad
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"If anyone has any trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged
electronic equipment, please let me know."

Dear JR,

I am realy sorry about all this desaster, but happy to see you alive.

For waterlogged equipments, no problem until they are under the water level
(out of oxygen contact).
The best way after that will be to clean all of this waste and poluted
equipments with clear water during a long time (no more chimical products in
the clean water), and to quickly dry them.

Good luck.

Best Regards to you and your family.

Francois BERGERET,
France.

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:04:41AM -0400, JR Richardson
wrote:
> If anyone has any trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged
electronic equipment, please let me know.
Glad that you're safe.  We're still waiting to hear about some of our
people.

Notes of encouragement:

1) DMS-10s have been through floods, hosed off, and made to operate
again.

2) I sent an Audiovox cell phone to the 12ft end of a swimming pool.  One
of the life guards brought it to me a while later.  I washed it and
dried it and used it for another year.

3) If you have a really valuable HDD then maybe its worth taking it to a
recovery specialist.

Note of discouragement:

1) My Motorola flip-phone fell into the toilet.  I washed it and dried
it and it started working - sort of.  It has water tattle-tale stickers
inside.  Maybe they designed it to stop working when it gets wet :).

Note to us all:

We should do off-site backups.  Encrypt sensitive stuff.  Send copies to
relatives and friends for safe keeping. I know I've been putting it off
for 5 years now.

-- 
Mike