WaPo: “A storm-battered town lost cell service. A country music station came to the rescue.”
‘Local leaders had made a contingency plan for a countywide communication outage after Tropical Storm Fred inundated Haywood County in 2021, and this was it: using WPTL’s airwaves to reach residents stranded at home.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/30/helene-north-carolina-canton-radio-station/
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2024-09-30 20:25:20
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