Well the city of Jamestown is still trying to block water in some areas and pick up sandbags in other areas. It looks like it is a never ending battle. Thankfully the National Guard has been in town for about four weeks.
Other communications have been issued recently about the flood. I have heard most of my information from the radio. The radio the other day was issuing a “NO WAKE” warning out at the reservoir. This is to keep waves at a minimum to relieve pressure on the dam. This is very important because if the dam was to break, over half of the town would be underwater and many towns downstream of us would suffer also.
I have decided after talking to numerous people that our spokesperson was the mayor of Jamestown. Most thought she was right there to tell people most messages about the flooding. This is very important for her to do, because most people saw she could do a good job and she this might help her win re-election.
Another source of information that deserves a lot of recognition is the radio stations in Jamestown. They have continuously kept people informed about many things including changes in the flood fight to what streets not to travel on during the day because of sandbagging efforts. Most people I talked to thought the same way as me about the radio stations and they had heard most of the information about the flood on the radio. Most of the people that I talked to travel to work every day and are in their cars for aver an hour a day, so that might be the reason most people used the radio.
For reviewing the meetings about the flood, both cable companies played them on air throughout the day. Only one person I talked to watched these almost every day and two people watched them occasionally. I would say that the older people that are retired and are at home most of the day were more apt to watch these viewings on television.
Almost everyone I talked to read the newspaper either occasionally or every day and learned information about the flood. Most people though thought it was old news because they had already heard it elsewhere. This would go to show that only one publication a day can leave some people in the dark and other’s not relying on it for a source on information.
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I find you communication crisis blog 3 to be very educative. It really does seem like the flood crisis in Jamestown is never ending, it’s well over 6 weeks and the flood is still threatening some areas of Jamestown.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you that the mayor being on top of things and keeping the people of Jamestown constantly updated would help her political career that is if she decides to run again for office.
Sounds like you have a great start on your communication research. The people you interviewed sounds like they were effective in getting you the information you needed. Its interesting to see that some people don't listen to the radio and relyed more on the tv broadcasting of the meetings and probably somewhat the local news stations. Jamestown was about a week behind in all their flood activity compared to VC so with some of the National Guard there from VC they knew exactly what to do and communicated that well to the others.
ReplyDeleteIt is very important that they have good communication with people out at the reservoir. If that communication would have gone bad, the whole city would be in danger. I agree with you that the radio is one of the most important ways to get information across. There are many people who might not nave internet so they couldn’t look up information or people might be away from their TV’s.
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