Local members get used to message relaying and handling traffic in county simplex operations. We have developed a number of portable repeaters that can be sheltered in a hardened site and then set up atop a surviving structure afterward. We are working on a digipeater to achieve the same results for packet. Given the large numbers of mobile homes in this county, I have requested radio amateurs who are forced to seek shelter to take 2-meter equipment with them and report into the appropriate net when they arrive at the shelter. I am quite familiar with HF traffic handling, which has serious problems of its own.
Routine traffic have to wait until more resources come on line.