Tom Champion Somerville Snow Emergency Remix
by cosmo
Probably my most productive three hours of 2009 went into this. Those with a short attention span might want to start at 1:03.
City Spokesman and local hero Tom Champion occasionally autodials all the numbers in the City of Somerville database to let citizens know that a snow emergency is going to be declared at some ungodly hour, and they need to move their motor vehicles.
Turns out, there’s also a .wav file of his message on the Somerville municipal webpage. Since he’s a government official, it’s (hopefully) public domain. Feel free to use my mix under the terms of CC-SA-NC. Commercial interests (snicker) can contact me directly.
UPDATE 1/29
Here’s a link a torrent file of the track (mp3, 192kbps, 4.7MB). You’ll need a BitTorrent client to download the actual mp3.
There’s also a direct link to the mp3 version, but this costs me 17 cents a gigabyte, so obviously, I prefer the torrent.
If anyone wants to do further remixing, I can provide pretty much any file format you want (.aif, FLAC, etc). Just send me an email (bottom of the page) and I’ll set something up.
[…] Somerville’s response to the storm has been excellent, even plowing my little Terrace outside of Porter Square. (Terraces, Courts, and other private ways are often the last to get cleared and mine was done by 10PM last night.) The City posted updates on Facebook and Twitter and sent out 311 calls. If you don’t already follow the City on Facebook, I highly recommend it. If you have a comment or complaint you can post there as well. (For a mashup of a classic Tom Champion snow emergency phone call from 2009 listen here.) […]