 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with sign up or renewal of a two year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The 2017 Kentucky Communication Interoperability Exercise got underway today at Pike County Central High School. Mobile command posts from agencies across the state are set up to demonstrate their capabilities during disasters and they're learning about the strengths and weaknesses that exist from region to region. Communications, especially radio communications, cell phone communications are tough in the mountains because of the terrain and topography. And when natural disasters strike they can easily take down cell towers and cause widespread power outages, creating major communication problems. But this event will hopefully make future problems easier to solve. This exercise is designed to show us what we have gaps in communications so that we can find ways to bridge those or know who we can call in that can bridge gaps for us. And one of those options is the Kentucky National Guard. No cell coverage, no internet and that's really what we're trying to show is that if you don't have that we can provide it. Tomorrow the groups will go through disaster scenarios where different forms of communication have been disrupted. We'll actually bring into play a lot of the capabilities these different trailers have. It may be that we need internet in one of ours, well we can pull it from one of these trucks and put it in there. One thing every group here has learned is that mother nature can wreck havoc in the blink of an eye. It doesn't take long to wipe out communications and that's the one thing you've got to have in disasters. If you can't communicate you can't you can't do anything. The showcase here in Pike County kicks off a three-week event that will include various training and testing events across the state. Reporting from Pike County Central High School, I'm Shannon Deskins for EKB News.