Lightning KOs "The River" Temporarily

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

I was awakened from my (so far effective) beauty sleep by
a thunderstorm that rolled through the Merrimack Valley
last night (07/19 @ about 2:00 am).  Once or twice there were
brilliant bolts of lightning followed immediately by the thunderboomer
so I knew they were nearby.  At times like this, since
I'm up anyway, I turn on 
The Weather Channel(tm) to see if there's a red bar at the
bottom of the screen warning of Armageddon (as in 'if this 
gets any worse, armageddon out of here').  When the 
radar sweep came on, I noticed a reddish-orange burst over 
Haverhill, so on a hunch I tuned in 92.5...and the
river was gone!  WXRV I mean, not the Merrimack.
Mirabile dictu (a little Latin lingo) WWYZ in Hahtf'd
was booming in with just enough signal to turn on the
stereo light, but I switched to manual mode and then
suffered through a 5 or 6 spot commercial break (at 2:00 am;
what were the rates?) for local advertisers in Seymour and Westport, CT among others.  I tested for WPRO-FM
(readjusting the antenna to minimize WFNX's Peterboro, NH
outlet) but I couldn't get any signal at all.  Could it 
be that WPRO-FM was knocked off too, or does it use a DA
that limits its signal north?  I didn't notice any 
other station off the air...WERS was sending an unmodulated 
carrier on 88.9, but perhaps that's normal in the middle of
the night.  Anyway, WXRV was back this morning.

BTW, there was a station at 93.3 that was NOT the WBOS
repeater that got as license to cover two months ago,
but I didn't check to see if it was the station NH or
WSNE.
The storm having abated, I went back to bed.

Laurence glavin
Methuen, MA
Westport, CT.


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