Re: My Research on Minot, ND

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 04:26 PM 4/5/2003 -0400, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>I've heard so much about that incident in the area of Minot, ND
>(a railroad car carrying toxic material, not Hormel Spam[tm], but some
>kind of irritating liquid or gas that spread far beyond the
>crash site; local officials called area radio stations to warn the
>populace, but EVERY FM station was owned by clear Channel, which 
>voice-tracks during off-peak-hours).
>I wondered how could this be, so I looked up Minot on 100,000watts.com
>after determing it's in Ward County.  Here are the outlets and owners of the
>commercial stations there:

(snip)

So why wasn't EAS used?  Isn't that what EAS is supposed to be for?



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