said by N3OGH :

When power lines go down, phone lines get wiped out by hurricanes, cell towers get overloaded from use, and fiber optic cables melt from wildfires in California, the hams and their "antiquated" technology always seem to get the message out that loved ones are safe.

Amateur radio operators are still a valuable pool of self equipped and experienced communicators proven to be reliable under the harshest of conditions...