Scott Mosby: Ice Storm “Hero”
December 12th, 2006
Scott just received the above Thank You note in the mail. It’s from Jerry Rombach, the executive officer of the Southwest Illinois office of the Home Builders Association. He writes:
As a temporary “victim” of the recent ice storm, I was grateful for your clear and concise tips for surviving the power outages… As a member of the housing industry, I was proud of your role on KMOX. By design or not, you were the very public voice of that industry, and you couldn’t have been better in what was, and is, a very trying time.
On Friday, December 1st, we all woke up to a disastrous ice storm. At the invitation of KMOX, Scott Mosby sat in with Charlie Brennan for his show from 9 – 11 a.m to answer listeners’ calls and dispense safe and logical advice to those left without power. There were so many people calling with questions about what to do in the aftermath, that Paul Harris asked him to please stay on board for his show from 2- 6 p.m.
Scott continued to answer questions and impart important information on his own KMOX show the next day. All in all, it was an ultra-busy few days for Scott, but he felt good about doing all he could to help out.
Over the course of the following weeks, we at Mosby have been getting word from some of the people who saw Scott as the voice of reason during their trying time. We’ve heard from our own family members about how “Scott was on the radio all day, helping out.” We’ve heard from KMOX listeners who stay tuned all day Friday via battery-powered radios.
We’ve heard from KMOX employees. One example is a KMOX secretary who – having lost power – was heating her home with the gas oven. She and her boys were experiencing patches of dizziness, but didn’t pay it much mind. She then heard Scott Mosby’s emphatic warning to not heat your home by gas oven as it poisons the unventilated air and can lead to death. She promptly turned off the oven, and gave full credit to Scott for saving their lives with this timely information. Bob Hamilton even went so far as to call Scott a hero for all his “wonderful service.”
And then Scott got this note from a colleague in the building industry, which made all we’d been hearing suddenly crystal clear. See, we Mosby employees are used to being surrounded by home experts; maybe we even take it for granted.
But to experience the knowledge and help that Scott offered during a winter storm emergency through other people’s eyes is an enlightening experience for us. We all know him a little too well to start fitting him for a Super Hero cape, but we are awfully proud of our Ice Storm Hero.
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