We felt we needed to follow up on the very first article we posted here at TSDTW.
If you recall, we posted an article that detailed one Florida station's push for their viewers to obtain a battery-power DTV.
Well, people in parts of Illinois will definitely be seeking those, so they are more prepared for the next disaster.
We're hearing that severe weather in the area knocked out thousands of people on the local power grid, besides taking out local CBS affiliate WSIL/3 Carterville, Illinois, knocking them off the air when the station's roof was ripped off. The station does have a backup facility, KPOB/15 Poplar Bluff, MO...so it can broadcast from there, if need be. However, WSIL is still providing service, via updates (and technology folks at the local Raycom station WXIX/19 Cincinnati are familiar with by now, a live blog) at www.wsiltv.com and through their twitter feed, located at http://twitter.com/WSILNews. (Although, the latter hasn't been updated, but we can certainly understand that. After all, when a storm takes your roof off, it's difficult to keep everything functional.)
We're not sure what will happen with WSIL...but it does make us wonder what the backup plans would be here, if and when a severe storm happens to take the roof off one of the local TV operations here...
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