When Hurricane Rita crashed ashore in southwest Louisiana Sept. 24, anchors from KPLC, the NBC affiliate in Lake Charles, huddled around a single microphone in a local hospital. Reporters were dishing out scraps of news they gathered on cellphones and a lone laptop. To assist hearing-impaired viewers, producers placed handwritten messages in plastic frames on a table. Fears of flooding had forced the station to evacuate its downtown studio and a primary backup site. The only suitable place left in town to ride out the storm was originally their third option: Christus St. Patrick Hospital. "It was very low-tech. We called it 'Caveman TV,' " says General Manager Jim Serra. But having a second alternate site allowed Liberty Corp.-owned KPLC to broadcast throughout the storm.
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机译：当丽塔飓风于9月24日在路易斯安那州西南部坠毁时，来自查尔斯湖NBC分支机构KPLC的锚点挤在当地医院的一个麦克风旁。记者们大肆散发他们收集在手机和一台孤独的笔记本电脑上的新闻。为了帮助听觉受损的观众，制作人将手写的消息放在桌子上的塑料框中。由于担心洪水，该电台不得不撤离其市中心的工作室和主要的后备站点。镇上唯一适合度过难关的地方是他们的第三个选择：Christus St. Patrick Hospital。总经理吉姆·塞拉（Jim Serra）说：“这是一项技术含量很低的技术。我们称其为'Caveman TV'。但是有了第二个备用站点，Liberty Corp.拥有的KPLC可以在整个风暴期间进行广播。
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