Interesting.

For Hurricane Helene specifically, my team at Newspack actually worked with Blue Ridge Public Radio and a number of other news organizations in the affected area to set up text versions of their websites for low bandwidth readers[1] and get info to 10s of thousands of people[2].

In fact, it was so successful (maybe not at reaching you specifically though), that we got a grant to roll out a general purpose plain text web solution for breaking news situations to news organizations across the country![3] So I think there may have been a mismatch in that you didn't know about all of the plain text versions of news sites available in your area during the disaster -- that's something we'll have to keep in mind.

[1] https://text.bpr.org/

[2] https://awards.journalists.org/entries/hell-or-high-water-bp...

[3] https://opennews.org/blog/press-forward-release/

I mean I regularly read the news and I didn’t know CNN has a lite version