From time to time, I'll listen to a San Francisco AM newsradio station at night all the way down here in Southern California and last night, it was convenient to be able to listen to local radio coverage of the fire.

I notice that the local San Francisco newspaper's website can be rather sluggish loading webpages this morning, most likely groaning under a heavy user load because of the fire. It reminds me of the continued need for broadcast media like TV or radio, which has no limit to the number of people who can receive the signal compared to the finite number of people who can access a website.

Actually, there was a series of programs on the History Channel about 9/11 last night also, and I distinctly remember being in a news vacuum that fateful morning. Even though I was in Manhattan on 9/11, our small office had no TV or radio, and all the news websites were overloaded that morning, so it was very difficult to get any news about what was happening down at the WTC. I and my small group of coworkers were pretty oblivious to what was happening for a while that morning. Even a small radio would've helped a lot that day.