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I don’t have experience with anything like this and am doing the best i can. I appreciate your ideas, but just don’t know if i am capable of handling staffing a hotline. I’m just one person and since i’m new here i don’t have many friends yet that i can recruit for help. Those friends that i do have and many of my husbands employees are in trouble and we’re trying to help them with whatever they need.

So i am afraid i may only be able to help in the limited way which i mentioned. If i don’t get many freepmails of missing people needing to be found, i will do what i can to be useful from inside my place. It’s raining again and so i can’t go out and don’t have a car.

Thank you so much for your help! Don’t stop coming up with ideas please. I will make every effort t do what i can to help until this thing is over.

Just heard on news that 8000 people have been rescued so far. It’s no where near over yet to. (NDCC Relief Effort)

They’re asking for relief items including medicines of the following type: cold medicine, cough medicine, anti-biotics, anti-diahhrea and for doctors. They are having trouble locating doctors.

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I've been doing emergency communications work since getting my ham license in 1976. It's a skill set that takes time to acquire and polish. Getting a ham license and practicing emergency communications during non-emergency public service events might be a worthy goal for your "to do" list. The rain/flooding that you are experiencing now will surely occur again. I admire your willingness to jump in and help.

ARRL has a bunch of standard forms for handling emergency traffic. You can find them as freebies at this link. Scan the list and pick out items relevant to your resources. There are more resources here