Lightening fried the substation Thursday evening leaving Grangeville without electricity. Of course at first nobody in the neighborhoods knew what caused the outage, how widespread it was or how long we could expect to be without power. That’s the first lesson we should have learned: we need a local radio station that is prepared for a disaster. Though this was a short-term problem, it should serve notice that we don’t have an effective way to get word out in a hurry unless KORT has the juice. […]