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Disaster Relief/SAR
 Relief workers hammock
tied up beside FEMA truck after Hurricane
Katrina.
Letters from Disaster Relief Workers
By the way I used it 4 nights during the most recent Hurricane deployments for
Gustav and Ike. Everyone else was sleeping on cots and swatting mosquitos in
La. and Texas while I slept like a baby. The outside of the net was covered
with large birds that they call mosquitoes.
Thanks, Ronny
Another Katina photo: Hennessy Hammock pitched inside a vending machine
shack by a relief worker at a Mississippi medical center
"Hello, Just wanted you to know
I slept in your hammock for our entire
deployent at Hurricane Katrina in Hancock
County Mississippi ...this is not the
first time I've spent my nights in it.
This time, however, I slept every night
of the 2 week deployment snug, cool,
and mosquito free. This picture is the
first night on site at the Hancock Medical
Center. I ended up setting it up from
luggage rack to luggage rack on some
of the vans we drove over in. Later
I found two columns that ended up being
the final setting....Your product is
WONDERFUL."
"Greetings, First allow me to
say that I have enjoyed your products
for several years and have enthusiastically
recommended them to friends and co-workers.
I have used your hammocks(namely the
Ultralight Backpacker) for travel
to a variety of locations primarily
while responding to man made and natural
disasters. Some examples include Seattle,
Vancouver, Turkey, El Salvador, Liberia,
Rwanda, Albania, and currently in
Iraq. In every location I have been
the envy of my compatriots......one
quick example was in El Salvador '99
just folling their earthquake, I was
with a medicl team establishing remote
clinics. During one night of the second
week there, we experienced an "after
shock" of 6.6. I awoke the next
morning to questions of how big I
thought the quake was. I responded
"what quake, it was a week ago".
Apparently it had awakened everyone
else during the night, as they were
all in the usual terrestrial tents,
and I slept straight through."
D. R.
Hennessy Hammock in Banda Aceh
following the tsunami.
 Hennessy Hammocks are being used
in disaster relief efforts and the
people who are using them are finding
them to be very effective solutions
to the problem of finding a dry, comfortable,
bug-proof place to sleep in a flooded,
mosquito-infested area where malaria
and other insect-borne diseases can
occur.
- This picture sent by a relief
worker from Banda Aceh shows that
a hammock can be pitched even in an
area that has been devastated by flooding.
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