We live in a ‘burb but just far enough away from tornado sirens that it wouldn’t wake us in the middle of the night. (I can’t imagine too many people would wake unless they’re right next door to it or they’re light sleepers) Because there has been a rash of weird weather this year, we decided to invest in a weather radio. You know the one thing you always say you should get once bad weather passes and never do?
I love the one we got by First Alert. It has S.A.M.E. technology and you can program what alerts you receive. Like we don’t need to know if a typhoon is coming because we’re not in an area that gets them but we do live in an area that sees tornados so we programmed to be alerted when a tornado warning is issued. Now it does have watch and warning lights on the unit that will blink as long as they are active or until you click to read them and then they’ll go solid and turn off when the alert expires. You can choose 2 types of alerts, either a full on alarm that continues to go off or an alarm goes off for 10 seconds followed by a voice alert that reads the bulletin from the National Weather Service. Of course when you set it up you never know if it works or not until you have the particular alert you chose. Last night at 11:30pm, our tornado warning went off just as we were heading up to bed. We never would’ve known because we just turned off a movie we were watching. So down to the basement we went with it and watched the local news until it passed at 12:30am. That paid for itself in that one use because while we had no touchdowns, there were funnel clouds and some that popped up with little warning at all and we were already in the basement when they did. If you’ve been putting off buying a weather radio no matter where you live, you should invest in one. I highly recommend the one we bought and it’s not very expensive at all. (And because it’s over $25 with Amazon, shipping is free!)
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