UPDATE: At least 50 people are likely dead following a tornado in Kentucky, governor says

[2naSalit]

32. Out here in...

We've got too many Senators-ville, we still have the EBS and the monthly tests, I still listen to radio a lot as do many, and we also have the new systems.

I once worked a job where I operated heavy equipment up in the mountains at night in the winter. I had a two-way that went to central dispatch which had just installed the GOLD system where we were connected to all comm systems in the area for about a hundred miles. When something went wrong, we called for help and whomever was designated to come and assist would be activated, but you still had to wait for hours for them to get there, could be twenty or more miles out from the nearest rescue unit. We had to announce our departure, route and return shelter on the two-way every night. It was a crazy job but it was amazing and fun too.

In the mountains, you don't always have signal for one or another dispatch, it's complicated.