BBC forteller i dag historien om WWL i New Orleans, den eneste radiostasjonen som klarte å holde seg på lufta under hele den
dramatiske perioden under og etter at orkanen Katrina rammet New Orleans.
Det er en dyptgående historie om radiofolk som trosset værgudene med fare for sitt eget liv og også reddet liv ved å formidle livsviktig informasjon til innbyggerne.
Her er noen utdrag:
"He had no way of knowing that in little more than 72 hours, New Orleans would be under water and WWL would be the only local radio station left on air.
"Commercial breaks were phased out of the coverage.
The station embarked on a frenzied effort to urge people to leave the city."
“If everyone just ran scared and left the city behind, who was going to tell everybody what was happening?”
“The gap is closing very quickly for you. If you haven't gotten out, you need to get out,” was the desperate on-air plea from Phil Capitano, the Mayor of Kenner.
Shortly after midnight, Earline Singleton, a grandmother in her 60s, telephoned the station from the Mid-City area. As she sat on a love seat on her porch, she could see cars floating on the water, as it continued to rise around her.
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