wfmu jersey city station manager ken freedman set up an internet connection patch for wwoz so they could go back on the internet air kicked in yesterday. their broadcast transmitter is of course, under water. their record collection is relatively safe on the second floor. wwoz plays jazz and NO heritage music. its part of healing, getting one thing at a time one step closer to back to normal. also, they taking donations for long term recovery. unlike the red cross, you know the cash is all going to them who need it now. click the above link for an easy connect.


- bill 9-05-2005 8:14 pm [add a comment]

wwoz station manager describes going back to the station to inspect the damage:

The next morning, we drove from Jefferson Parish to River Road, the highest and dryest route into the city itself. As we passed through the Uptown area tree branches everywhere and downed power lines and poles. There was a bushy texture the color of butterscotch just about everywhere you looked. However, the houses eerily remained standing, save for a few that had been demolished because they were ready to fall anyway -- mostly ancient brick buildings or old wooden structures infested by termites. A number of roofs had missng shingles-- always on the eastern side of the buildings. The vast majority of houses were undamaged and those that were had been hit by fallen trees and
telephone poles. The trees toppled over rigidly crashing into things while many of the poles tended to snap like toothpicks. But most of the structures I saw along Magazine Street were completely intact --
even the exposed windows that fleeing occupants had not bothered to board up. Most affected was Audubon Park-- where hundreds of fine old live oak trees lay toppled on their sides, still clinging to
bus-sized clods of earth-- a sea of trees cresting out of the ground at 45 degree angles.