A flood of ink

There is nothing that gets a newspaper reporter’s heart pumping than breaking news. The average blood pressure of the staff at the Saratoga Sun rose considerably last week as we scrambled to cover all of the events happening due to the flood preparations.

Long days and long nights became the norm as the staff worked to cover all of the flood events, graduation activities, award events and more.

Breaking news never happens during a slow week, but we have discovered there is never a slow week in the Platte Valley.

Without the cooperation of those in charge of the flood mitigation operations last week, we never would have been able to bring you the comprehensive coverage that we are giving you this week.

The staff at the Saratoga Sun appreciates all of the cooperation we received from Carbon County Emergency Management coordinator John Zeiger, Col. Scott Schofield, who was in charge of the National Guard operations, the town of Elk Mountain and the citizens of Saratoga, Riverside and Elk Mountain who kept us informed of what was happening in your communities.

At night, we would go home exhausted, knowing that our work was relatively easy compared to what everyone else was doing as part of the flood effort.

Along with keeping up with events, we had to come up with clever ways to protect our cameras from rain while capturing photos of the breaking news and trying to get our pens to write on soaked paper.

As the flood waters recede, so will our adrenaline as we get back into the normal routine of covering the events in the Platte Valley.

Thanks to all of those who allowed us to photograph, interview and record your efforts in keeping our community safe.

Every chance we had, we took the time to thank the people who were here to help us; we hope that the members of our community took the opportunity to thank them as well.

 
 

Reader Comments(1)

gcooksey writes:

Thank you again to all of the Saratoga Sun staff. Your coverage was second to none during the recent threat of flooding.