Need "clarification" from the horses mouth!

[carolinajazz]

Would not want to pass on or misquote the Weather Channel report but this morning I caught a piece of there report that the Utah people swept away in the recent flash floods are so "secretive" that they were unable to receive any warnings because they "don't have cable t.v. or internet service" (possibly no cell phones, either?). Don't know if anybody else caught this same report, but since many on this board live in Utah and have Mormon ties, I thought perhaps you could shed some light on the matter or at least comment or explain?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/ameri...n-utah-hitting-secretive-polygamist-community

 

[Gameface]

Would not want to pass on or misquote the Weather Channel report but this morning I caught a piece of there report that the Utah people swept away in the recent flash floods are so "secretive" that they were unable to receive any warnings because they "don't have cable t.v. or internet service" (possibly no cell phones, either?). Don't know if anybody else caught this same report, but since many on this board live in Utah and have Mormon ties, I thought perhaps you could shed some light on the matter or at least comment or explain?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/ameri...n-utah-hitting-secretive-polygamist-community

They were members of the sect associated with Warren Jeffs. They are not part of the LDS church at all. They live in closed communities.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

I've visited that community several times in the last year. The people I dealt with all had cell phones, though I'm unsure how prevalent they are. I never saw any TVs, but I wasn't looking for them. The way I heard the story the people who were killed got swept away while watching the flooding so I don't think cable TV, internet or cell phones really would have played any role.

 

[babe]

It's sometimes true that fundamentalist Mormon cult members don't follow the radio or news, but some do. I'm not sure I would get the alerts when I'm on my ranch, as there's not even cell coverage there and I don't sit by my phone, and there's no local radio either, and no TV reception. I'd have to go satellite to have real live contact with the world, but why bother, I'm out working. I've had eight flash floods in the past three years, and yeah, one night the road to my place was flooded across a five mile stretch, with boulders left on the road by water a few feet deep.

Could easily have been me sitting in my van watching a flood across the road when a bigger flood came swooping down on me.

I've been to the exact spot where this flood occurred, but it was in 1970 when I was teasing my girlfriend, on our way to my mom's house in St. George. I drove her over to that plygville and up into that canyon on the northeast side of the town, and announced that this was my mom's house. . . . before I started laughing at her hysterics.

 

[carolinajazz]

3 responses and all of them shed some light on the question/report from the Weather Channel.....and that's enough for me! Thank you all!