Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

Plenty of troubles due to the weather Saturday night into Sunday.

As I got home from the football games on Saturday night, the rain started. The freezing rain awakened me about 3 or 4 times before 5AM. I had already postponed my bowling tournament in Mifflinburg for that day. It was no surprise to see all the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton TV stations had been off the air.

If you drive north on I-81, you can see all the TV and a few radio towers. Once you pass the Nuangola exit (exit 159), you'll see the towers on a ridgetop. The scary thing is that all of those towers are so close to each other. There's a possibility (if the conditions are right) that if one falls, they all fall. Well, WNEP's fell and the top half of WVIA's fell. In the process, the power line to WYOU's was cut. Because of power outages, we had nothing from WBRE, Fox56, CW38, or the others for the better part of Sunday.

A good heads up move by Comcast in Pottsville to pick up KYW in Philly in time for the second half of the Steelers game on Sunday. A bad move to switch from KYW to WTAJ in Altoona this morning... not sure why, perhaps it's because WYOU and WTAJ are owned by the same company. I e-mailed Comcast (again) asking to because a second CBS station part of the basic package, for instances like this when we lose our only CBS station.

Then again, this is Comcast we're talking about here. I got an automated response stating they'll get back to me today, since my issue isn't time sensitive.

Buckle up,
TS