[Hai-users] HAI Status

[Dan Barclay]

As Ken said, they've posted on the Worthington board and Tom is pretty close
with them (I think he used to work there).  In short, they report (as I
understand it):

  Their facilities are above sea level and so far as they can determine has
not had any flooding.
  They have word that their building survived the windstorm.
  Their people are scattered, but OK.
  They will get back up as soon as they can get back in.

You can contact them through Worthington.  Worthington has frequent
communication with them.

HAI's facility is just SE of New Orleans International airport.  I don't
have the address handy, but if you put it in Google you can find it.

HAI thinks they'll be in soon.  I hope so, but I have my doubts.  We're
watching that situation pretty closely since we have a lot of evacuees here
(I'm located in East Texas).  Those folks are expected to be here for quite
some time (we registered more than 150 in our local school today).  These
people have nothing.  Aside from the very west side (where HAI is), New
Orleans is destroyed.  I doubt many, if any, of their employees live in this
industrial area and my guess is that many of them lost everything.

Even though their facilities are thought to be OK, even if HAI decides they
need to set up shop somewhere else temporarily I don't think it would take
them long.  They don't have needs that require massive infrastructure
changes.

If you need something from them, contact Worthington.  I think Worthington
is also setting up a relief fund of some sort for HAI employees.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hai-users-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:hai-users-bounces at tssi.com] 
> On Behalf Of Byron Peebles
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:29 PM
> To: hai-users at tssi.com
> Subject: [Hai-users] HAI Status
> 
> Has anyone heard from anyone at HAI?  I just got to thinking that I 
> wasn't able to get to their website and their eMail isn't working.  I 
> guess I'm a little slow.  Could somone post here if they hear 
> something?
> 
> I'm hoping they aren't directly involved in the disaster in New 
> Orleans, but I'm afraid they might be, since they just moved back into 
> the city, as I recall from last contact (a couple of weeks ago).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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