Wireless System Wanted

Someday I would like to replace my three wireless devices that I service from three separate providers with three of the same type of devices with one bill from one provider. 

[1] I have a cell phone with USC (U. S. Cellular) 

[2] a cell phone with ATT (A T & T)

[3] and a broadband card with Sprintpcs. 

[W] I need one simple provider to provide me it all with better equipment and lower monthly cost and provide me with as good of phone as I have with ATT (Treo 650) with all the features I like. 

I like the ATT cell phone and base rate but I do not like getting charged for incoming text or calls.


To get that type of wireless cell phone from USC you have to get the internet service at an additional $40 on to the bill.  I do not need that feature but I do want the Treo type of phone.  They will not do that so I do not like their phones but I do like the free incoming calls and text.

Is it logical that a wireless company could easily provide three wireless units with all the features on each unit?  I recall when I said that about printers with the ability to scan, copy, fax, and auto feed or flatbed all in one.  Now it is common and affordable (I like my Brother Color unit that does it best so far with 11x17 option). I am throwing my LexMarks and HP printers away soon.


I like the Sprintpcs broadband card and the people at the store locally are the most helpful and smart.  All three companies have "Customer No Service" online.  I like to deal that way but I have to beam up because their is no intelligent wireless service providers online that I have found so far.



When all else fails, I post my wants on a blog and I usually get what I want. 


I want to combine all three into one wireless service for less or same price total ($150/mo), have two cell phones that will do what my Treo 650 will do or more, have my broadband card so I can plug it into my router for my office wireless system or take it on the road in my notebook, and have it all with one simple service provider.


Someday I will find such a deal and the world will make a path to that service and more business minded people like me can enjoy the better service and equipment for less cost and work.

If you are such a provider for the Tulsa OK area, contact me though my website at gbreisch.com and let me know.

It Starts with a Drop of Water

Can you picture a drop or rain water falling to the earth. It and many more drops begin falling to the ground to become a flood. FEMA calls this flood of raindrops that occur on an average of once in 100 years as the type of flood that can determine the Base Flood Elevation or BFE. The BFE is an elevation (contour line) on a creek or drainage way that can be shown by FEMA on their Flood Maps. The BFE line has an elevation shown on it that we as surveyors can find on the ground to compare to actual elevations on the ground. That way we can see if the BFE flood elevation is above or below any real points we measure near to that BFE line or interpolated between two BFE lines.

FEMA also "shade areas" to indicate areas that flood without a BFE line. So how do we determine the "BFE flood" Elevation for the map areas without a BFE line?

You need the "Basis of BFE Determination" which FEMA either will not provide you or is making it so difficult that most surveyors give up in the process trying.

Once understand what it takes to determine the BFE, then it is all a matter of surveying and plugging in all the data into the formulae or into a program that will result in a BFE. The greatest Mystery is the quantity of rain over a period of time that it takes to create a BFE STORM. You would think that someone who shades those maps would have such data. So where is it and who and what determines that 100 year RARE RAIN?

My first thoughts would be climate data statistics. Who has those statistics? If they do then how are they justified or determined when we do not have access to the data over thousands of years or even hundreds of years of rain gages or flow gages around the world? Does someone consult with the ALMIGHTY to get this data from HIM or what?

I will find out while I am alive in this system or later in a new system and you can help solve this mystery by searching and seeking and asking questions. Who will crack the FEMA MYSTERY?