@underthestars @danhon @tomstafford Here in Nashville, power outages are announced on Twitter. Lots of public and emergency announcements go through Twitter and Facebook. Years ago, the daily newspaper The Tennessean played this role: I worked tbere when the gas supply dried up because of hurricanes, calling gas stations and answering phones of people calking us to know. Alas, the newpaper too was a private Gannett-owned platform, which has turned into a shadow. There seems to be no stable public communication platform, certainly not in Nashville where I live.