Dan's Papers - May 16, 2008 - Hurricane? Tune In To LTV, For 24 Hours of Info

As Long Island continues to be hit by bizarre weather - including excessively hot spring days, deluges of rain and May 12's wind storm - the East End's Local TV (LTV), which operates on Cablevision's LTV Channel 20 and EG Channel 22, has produced a series of hurricane preparedness programs. Should the Town of East Hampton find itself on a Hurricane Watch, LTV will preempt its scheduled programming for 24 hours with hurricane preparedness shows and alerts.

Residents can check the service June 1, the first day of the hurricane season, as LTV tests its hurricane preparation programming. The test will run from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. At that point, LTV will air historical hurricane programming, culled from its 17,000+ library, until midnight. The historical programming will include footage of past storms, including footage from the 1938 storm and Hurricane Gloria, Bob and Hugo, as well as discussions by local experts, including Richard Hendrickson and Larry Penny, and local officials, past and present, including Bill McGintee, Jay Schneiderman, Tony Bullock, Dick McGowin and Pat Mansir.