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Good job, Scott Fybush
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Geez...Let's try this again.
Scott: I follow you regularly, and never miss your Monday updates. Your in-depth reports of what's happening in the business are must-read...BUT, I think you missed the boat on your coverage. While the details of New York, Boston, etc are certainly appreciated, the biggest story of Irene in the Northeast willikely be the significant flood damage in Vermont....where serious flooding - probably the worst since 1927 - has swept away historical and picturesque covered bridges, closed over 200 roads and left at least 3 people dead...so far. Please take my comments in context - it's quite possible much of this information was not known when you "went to press".... and I still respect your knowledge of the business. Perhaps my frustration lies more with this board in general, which seems to feel the radio world revolves around the Upper Valley, Portland, and Bangor...and basically does not exist north of White River Junction.
Scott: I follow you regularly, and never miss your Monday updates. Your in-depth reports of what's happening in the business are must-read...BUT, I think you missed the boat on your coverage. While the details of New York, Boston, etc are certainly appreciated, the biggest story of Irene in the Northeast willikely be the significant flood damage in Vermont....where serious flooding - probably the worst since 1927 - has swept away historical and picturesque covered bridges, closed over 200 roads and left at least 3 people dead...so far. Please take my comments in context - it's quite possible much of this information was not known when you "went to press".... and I still respect your knowledge of the business. Perhaps my frustration lies more with this board in general, which seems to feel the radio world revolves around the Upper Valley, Portland, and Bangor...and basically does not exist north of White River Junction.
khzking said:
As an Adirondack native and visitor to Vermont, I've been relying on WPTZ and WCAX online for info. While I havent seen every news segment, it would appear that the NY/NJ area and Southern New England are the focus of the national news media.
First the Champlain Bridge has to be replaced and now this. It will take years to replace those roads...and construction season is almost over.
khzking said:
Scott's column, NERW, was NOT intended to be an update on the Tropical Storm. It is a column concerning radio! The tragedy in Vermont was covered very well by the rest of the media--Scott was simply bringing us up-to-date on how our fellow broadcasters were doing. And, it would appear that when he posted the column, the force of the storm hadn't even hit Vermont yet. And while Scott posts on this board occasionally, he doesn't have control of what other people post.
Your frustration is certainly understandable and what happened in Vermont is tragic indeed, but please don't take it out on Scott.
I didn't read it that way...and I quite agree that the real story of Irene's aftermath is the flooding devastation in northern New England and the Hudson Valley. As khzking correctly surmised, I "go to press" with NERW on Sunday night, and wrote most of this week's column on Sunday afternoon, at a point when I hadn't even been planning on doing a column this week at all.
At that point, the floodwaters were just starting to rise along the Hudson and Connecticut rivers and their tributaries, and with so much power out and so many radio people in emergency mode trying to keep people informed and keep their own signals on the air, there simply wasn't any hard information to go on yet about what the damage looked like and how radio and TV were responding. There was some additional information (especially from Bob Welch up at WSTJ) that made it to the NERW FB page, and I'd encourage readers of the column to like the FB page as well.
Even now, 40+ hours after the floodwaters started rising, all the power outages and infrastructure damage means I still don't have as much information as I'd like to have about who stayed on, who went off and who might have suffered damage from the flooding. As I get more of that information, I'll be putting at least an update on the top of Monday's column. (I'm still hoping to take next week off for the holiday; we'll see if that pans out.)
The "weekly column on Monday" mode worked well in 1997, but may be somewhat outmoded in 2011, which is why I'm working on an overhaul to the site, due to debut later this fall, that will provide more regular updates to subscribers.
At that point, the floodwaters were just starting to rise along the Hudson and Connecticut rivers and their tributaries, and with so much power out and so many radio people in emergency mode trying to keep people informed and keep their own signals on the air, there simply wasn't any hard information to go on yet about what the damage looked like and how radio and TV were responding. There was some additional information (especially from Bob Welch up at WSTJ) that made it to the NERW FB page, and I'd encourage readers of the column to like the FB page as well.
Even now, 40+ hours after the floodwaters started rising, all the power outages and infrastructure damage means I still don't have as much information as I'd like to have about who stayed on, who went off and who might have suffered damage from the flooding. As I get more of that information, I'll be putting at least an update on the top of Monday's column. (I'm still hoping to take next week off for the holiday; we'll see if that pans out.)
The "weekly column on Monday" mode worked well in 1997, but may be somewhat outmoded in 2011, which is why I'm working on an overhaul to the site, due to debut later this fall, that will provide more regular updates to subscribers.
amguy: I did not do a good job of making my point so your comment is quite valid. My comments were not intended so much to slam Scott as to make my point that life, and radio, exists outside of the myopic viewpoint of most posters on this particular board. You have to know that given the scope of the destruction, somewhere north, and west, of Lebanon there was some good radio going on. I also credit Scott for a classy response to what no doubt came across as a backseat comment to his reporting... which certainly was not my intent...it's been a very long few days for all of us. Keep up the good work Scott...and as always, I personally look forward to the Monday report. If my rambling only serves to make a few people realize that there is more to life in general than radio, and certainly more to radio than the opinions of those whose life goes no further than Concord, Lebanon, Portland and the radio center-of-the-universe: Bangor.. than I have somehow accomplished something.
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khzking said:
I'm sure the thousands people actually in the communities north and west of Lebanon understand and appreciate this. Why not focus on that, instead of looking for validation from (as you mention) a "few" folks in Bangor and other places?
We care what happens outside of Bangor. We really do. So why don't you tell us what exactly is going on in Vermont. Who is off the air? Who broadcasting live information and news? Who is canned and ignoring everything? And can you still walk around naked in Brattleboro?
And we haven't had a good Corm bashing thread in several months.
And we haven't had a good Corm bashing thread in several months.
I'll agree with Special Ed. I post quite a bit about Bangor because that's where I am. But I do enjoy reading about Portland, NH and VT too! It takes people from everywhere to keep us all in the Northern New England loop.
special ed said:
No, you cannot. Initially the selectboard of Brattleboro rejected a proposal to ban nudity in downtown Brattleboro, then some idiot visiting from Florida decided to walk naked down Main Street and into an art gallery during the monthly art walk. After this, the selectboard then passed an ordinance banning nudity in all of Brattleboro. This included the popular nude beach at Rock River, though the ordinance has not been enforced there, and the beach is currently inaccessible due to storm damage.
That’s probably more than you wanted to know and definitely off topic for this thread, but since you asked...
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