During yesterday’s blizzard many things came to mind for me.
Like the stories that my great aunt told me as a child about the famous blizzard
of 1888. She was a very young girl at the time and only remembered that it was
impossible to go anywhere for weeks. The storm dumped up to 60 inches of snow
in its wake in parts of New England including her town in Connecticut. Over
almost two full days the wind blue
drifts as high as 50 feet in some areas. I imagined what it must have been
like. A blizzard more powerful than our blizzard of 2017 trapping people in
their own homes during a time that only offered a hand shovel to most people of
the 1880’s. Roads & walkways couldn’t be cleared for days on end and good
old radio was still more than 30 years away from broadcasting the spoken word. An
event that would be a literal lifesaver in the time of future storms. It’s been
just short of 100 years since radio began broadcasting those first words and
here we are again finding ourselves in the mist of another blizzard and the need
for information that for some could be lifesaving. The difference is today
snowplows, snowblowers and other devices to make our life easier are plentiful
& there are so many other ways to get information that to those who need help
radio becomes an afterthought. Perhaps getting the information that you need
from radio isn’t as important as it once was but a local radio station like The Drive is still a place to know that in
your community of Rutland County Vermont we care about what happens because it
is our community too. I live here with you. So does Uncle Dave and the rest of
the Drive family. By all means, check your text messages, tweets & facebook
pages but remember; we will be here not only as a music radio station, but as a
community one as well. For you.
