Maybe he remembers the "promises" of the Amateur Radio Community in 2003/2004 to provide emergency communications and their "essential" HF antennas. Three hurricanes hit Florida, 99% of HF antennas are mangled and useless. In the first Hurricane evacuation, probably 90% of the amateur radio operators evacuated.

I don't blame the operators that evacuated, but if you're going to promise someone something and you don't deliver because "it got too dangerous" or "I didn't have the resources to take down my HF antenna to protect it", then maybe they won't give you want you want when that was your argument of why you needed something.

The Red Cross in most of the State decided to get their own radios/radio systems and dumped Amateur Radio because there were many shelters that didn't have an operator there (remember the 90% that evacuated?).