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Mudslide

Bongwater

Bongwater

KOMO seems to be on the ball with the Oso mudslide disaster. KIRO breaks in. Business as usual on KRKO, KKXA and KSER. And so much for KEJI in Darrington.

Isn't it strange from the stations closest to a local disaster out here, you'd swear nothing was going on and the only people actually reporting anything on it are the Seattle stations?

KOMO did say the EAS would break in should the mud/debris dam created by the mudslide in the Stillaguamish River give way. (It's rising at an unbelieveable rate. And should it go, Arlington is REALLY gonna get it.)

And one more time for all you network radio/TV people outside of Puget Sound, it's pronounced STILL-A-GUAM-ISH. Not STILL-A GUM-ISH. Or just call it like the locals; "The Stilly". Thank you.

But I don't think KOMO would be the EAS station in this particular case. KRKO/KKXA would be the best as their signals come in loudly in that area (and KKXA is very popular there.) Monitoring KKXA and KOMO.

The photos are simply unbelievable. It's like somebody dynamited a huge chunk of a mountain. Unquestionably the biggest mudslide I have ever seen.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023201818_mudslidexml.html
 
Bongwater said:
.... And so much for KEJI in Darrington.

Isn't it strange from the stations closest to a local disaster out here, you'd swear nothing was going on and the only people actually reporting anything on it are the Seattle stations?

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023201818_mudslidexml.html
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Why would you say that, Bong? Can you even hear KEJI from your place? It's pretty well hemmed-in by terrain. Matter of fact, Oso is nearly the farthest fringe where you'd know you were driving into a local station.

KEJI completely went down with the slide. I got ping errors from its STL lines at about 10:40am, and had chewed out the phone company before I knew what had actually happened. Currently, it is isolated from all-but it's local audio source and support personnel. I'm sure they'll decide what the station can offer.

The EAS list announced that the weather service had isolated their warning to only one of the several weather radio stations in the region. As it happens, KEJI is not assigned to monitor the station that sent out the warning. As far as I can tell, that was the only EAS activation that was made. I saw no alerts from any of the other Seattle-area boxes I monitor.

If you happen to have productive information that you can share here, please do so... but please be careful about dropping conjecture regarding stations and companies that are actually represented on the forum.
 
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If that's what happened to KEJI, I can understand it. But locally in that area, radio stations (and not just KEJI - if the mud dam in the river goes in the worst case, like I said, Arlington is going to get it.)

Not my opinion. Just a factual observation using a radio. The only reporting I've heard are from Seattle stations. That's all.
 
I know for a fact that KFNQ, KIRO-710 and KTTH all relayed the EAS warning around 8pm Saturday night. Not sure if there were any EAS messages sent after that.
 
xmtrland said:
I know for a fact that KFNQ, KIRO-710 and KTTH all relayed the EAS warning around 8pm Saturday night. Not sure if there were any EAS messages sent after that.
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Thanks for the info. I did see that on the boxes I watch.

Nothing prior to the incident though. I don't doubt that will be worked out, at some point.
 
If it wasn't for "Bong" and his conjecture and up to the minuet "reporting" I would be in the friggin dark about what's going on. Forget KOMO or KIRO as your info source. BONG is much better!!! I for one am grateful that someone has that much time to devote to keeping this page up to date with hearsay, rumor, innuendo. What stations are doing what when and for how long...I think a spread sheet would be handy to keep track of it all... Heck with a skill set like that I'm surprised FOX hasn't scooped you up for a fulltime gig along side Sheppard Smith. Bong me thinketh your bowl is about cashed and you need some OGKush or Sour D, repack it and try again.
 
Robert Biltmore Jennings said:
If it wasn't for "Bong" and his conjecture and up to the minuet "reporting" I would be in the friggin dark about what's going on. Forget KOMO or KIRO as your info source. BONG is much better!!! I for one am grateful that someone has that much time to devote to keeping this page up to date with hearsay, rumor, innuendo. What stations are doing what when and for how long...I think a spread sheet would be handy to keep track of it all... Heck with a skill set like that I'm surprised FOX hasn't scooped you up for a fulltime gig along side Sheppard Smith. Bong me thinketh your bowl is about cashed and you need some OGKush or Sour D, repack it and try again.
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Easily excitable, are we? ;)
 
I do not understand why anyone is choosing to climb on someone who has put very relevant observations on here about a very real issue: Local Radio is not always very responsive when it needs to be thanks to changing economic and industry conditions. Being snarky about his examples and points is simply lacking in any class.
 
Local radio

Along with all the TV people (me included) 790 KGMI is here from Bellingham (Two hosts under a big tent!) along with CBC radio (at least a Ford Escape with CBC markings is here). Plus the Seattle radio news stations. Did anybody really expect the Catholic religious station in Darrington to be here? I'm guessing that they are a glorified translator, nothing more. I'm sure there's probably no local staff, save for a contract engineer that stops by on occasion. They are not local radio and aren't intending to be. Unless, of course, somebody takes over the transmitter and starts programming it with local rescue and public safety information for the duration of this event. This is a situation where a decently powered pirate radio station could be of some benefit.

Valvashon
 
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