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Power out at West Tiger & Cougar

Here's a list of stations that are having technical difficulties or off the air, as of 10:30pm tonight

89.9 KASB Bellevue (totally off the air, and Bellevue schools closed through Friday)
90.9 KVTI Tacoma (NWPR stations having major trouble due to iced up satellite dishes and power outages, off the air)
96.1 KXXO Olympia (dead air)
99.3 KDDS elma (dead air)

-crainbebo
 
And on the Grays Harbor front, off air are KXXK, KDUX, KSWW, KLSY, KANY.
 
Up in the North Sound, things are still humming right along......Everybody's still on the air......

Even the NWPR stations......
 
But it's also a point to ponder: What if Seattle REALLY gets it, like folks in the south end did? Or a super blizzard with one HARDCORE storm after another pounding us for a week, how would KIRO-FM deal with it? Would they move back to AM for the time being if their FM ran out of juice?

I remember when KPLZ was off the air for nearly a week during the storm of '96. An FM music station would be able to survive (not painlessly by any means), but no access to those mountains can be an Achilles heel for a full blown FM News/Talker with no 50,000 watt AM fall-back.......
 
Here's an update to Crane's list as of 10:30 this morning, can't get KASB up here anyway, KVTI and KDDS are back on, KXXO still dead air. I would assume power is still out on Tiger and Cougar, but if they can get all the roads back open, I wouldn't expect outages to last that long, assuming they have someone go up and refuel the generators.
 
Getting a truck into Cougar to refuel the generators is not too big a deal since the road is paved all the way up. Might be more of a problem getting the truck down the hill safely.

Tiger is a whole other story with the amount of snow there now. I suspect it's snowcat only for the next few months. But that's why they have a single massive generator for each site there and an equally large fuel supply.
 
On 89.9, KASB is still off. KXXO is back on. Am hearing a fair signal of KGRG in Auburn here in Bellevue, first time since last summer.

-crainbebo
 
Most of the Grays Harbor stuff got back on between 9 and noon today. I have one lonely KLSY all dressed up and no place to transmit, but that should be done by morning.

I really hate it when the weatherman is correct.
 
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
I have one lonely KLSY all dressed up and no place to transmit, but that should be done by morning.
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KOMO/KVI decided to continue online. Seems odd, but maybe most of KVI is canned after it went down.
 
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