[CobaltBlue]

The local fire company offered to take any of us who wanted a nap and a shower back to the station to use their facilities, the cops brought us coffee and donuts!!! listeners were bringing us casseroles.

What a wonderful story!

During a disaster, especially one that goes on and on, like a hurricane, you broadcast guys are literally the voice of the community.

Yesterday, we didn't get our Washington Times, period, doubt they even printed, and the Washington Post didn't come until late in the afternoon, and appears to have been "put to bed" last in the morning, but I knew all the news I needed from the radio.

[Gabz]

Thanks.

Where I now live the nearest daily paper is the Salibury (MD) Daily Times. Of the 2 local papers, one comes out on Wednesday and Saturday and the other comes out on Wednesday.

I heard something on the radio around 11 yesterday morning that the Daily Times would start being delivered within the hour. It had been seriously delayed in going to print.

I was appalled that the Salibury TV stations went to regular programming following the morning news shows and the noon news, and local radio wasn't any better. I watched more Norfolk/Hampton Roads news on Thursday (before my cable went out) than I have since I moved here the end of April. The Salisbury station at least pay a modicum of attention to the shore counties in Virginia, the stations on the other side of the bay ignore us.

The lack of information available to folks here on the Eastern Shore scared the bejeezus out of me.