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.
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