Below are two stories about the grave situation people found themselves especially in rural areas with Hurricane Helene.

Anatomy of a Mass Communication Outage
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Interview with Thomas Witherspoon KM4BLG

• In the second story the interviewer begins with the question what is amateur radio?
• At minute 19:20, the interview goes into some assumptions we can get lulled into before an event and the emerging reality of finding oneself being in an apocalyptic situation.
• At 19:25 minutes to 45:30 goes deeper into the situation the community found themselves in, what they found that worked, that community is important, and can be the most important in the first 72 hours.