Savannah is ready!

Those were the words spoken by Savannah's Mayor Edna Jackson earlier this morning at Savannah's new emergency operation center. Yes we are feeling effects of Tropical Storm Isaac here in Savannah. Our news director has made it clear that the weather is the lead story from here on out. When weather is the lead you typically do a lot of weather type stories. This gave Savannah a chance to rest the minds of its residents by showing just how 'ready' they are. This facility holds a backup generator, backup 911 center and host a wall full of dozens of monitors so city officials can keep an eye on everything. The small snag is that the facility won't be up and running until a few more months. A federal grant is what funded the operations center to a tune of a million plus dollars.

The city lead us on a tour full of empty rooms and rows of empty telephones. It wasn't a very interesting story visually, but it was nice to see that the city is trying to make us safer-- mayor Jackson said we are ready for anything. She hosted a press conference with other city disaster leaders and the local media, WJCL (ABC) ,WTGS (FOX) and my station along with the paper were there. WSAV which is NBC was absent.

My day was quiet besides that, nothing but the sound of the rain fell between the squawk of the radio and the sound of typing in the newsroom.

Sunday Shift

Well Sundays are a mixed bag, some days we have lots to do others like today was very slow. I only had one formal story to do okay two formal stories to do. One was a opening of an office for a DA and the other was a fundraiser for a children's hospital.

On the breaking news side of things I had to cover two accidents, one a possible death and the other a fender bender nothing too serious. More than likely people are always willing to talk to me at an accident or crime scene, you would be surprised how many people want to tell you exactly what happened-- often its when you don't ask. On the one side that's good the other side it can make your job a bit tough having to shift through the lies and find the truth-- but hey that's what journalism is all about right!? Well I have one final day of my week before my ' weekend' I'm calling it a night.

Fire at a Shed

First off I want to say sorry for not posting as much as I should. Now that I have the time after I get off work I can and also I will be using a new app on my cell phone that will allow me to quickly post pictures and text on my downtime.

Now on to the picture you see above that was the result of a fire on the islands at around 10:30 Saturday evening. Fires make good television but it is rare that the media is able to get to an active fire. We typically end up getting the aftermath. I was 'lucky' enough to arrive on scene just
as the fire was being put out. According to officials on scene the fire is still under investigation, there have been no injuries and we are still awaiting a press release.

I was then set to a police DUI check point on route 80 on the way to Tybee. It was a really cool story especially since I got to see the police officers set up the checkpoint. The reason I didn't have any picture from it was because I had to pee and I didn't have much one to shoot and take pics as my shift was ending--have to be quick.

Lastly, I did 8 stories, it was a pretty good day. It's rare where I can go through a day without shootings, I deadly accidents. I promise to post more.