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Emergency/Weather Radios?
Smitty500mag
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Any of you guys use a emergency/weather radio? Our youngest Son bought us one when he found out we were going to be living in Mississippi for a few years on a job back before I retired.
We were staying in our travel trailer 3 to 4 nights a week on that job and I can't count the number of times we were awaken by the emergency alarm on the radio for tornado warnings. Several times we left the trailer in the middle of the night when the trailer got to feeling like it was going to blow over. I at least got up and put on my cloths because if the tornado hit I didn't want to be found laying out in the swamp in my underwear when the rescue people were searching for our remains!
We were parked in Goshen Springs RV Park on the other side of the Barnett reservoir from Jackson, MS and evidently we were in some kind of path for bad weather because it seemed we were having a bad storm at least once a week and a lot of times it was more than that.
I spent the first 38 years of my life living in the hills and mountains of Tennessee and not once during those years did I ever see a tornado. We finally got that experience one time and I don't want to ever go through that again. We got caught in a tornado while we were staying at Serf Side Beach, SC in 1980 at the Holiday Inn. It knocked the windows out of over 40 cars in the parking lot and ours was one of them. I looked out the window of the motel and saw small buildings, lawn furniture and most everything else was being blown away. Some of it was found over 2 miles away the next day. Luckily we weren't in the center of it or it could have been a whole lot worse.
Now that we're living in Hampton, GA we've not experienced any really bad weather here like we have in other parts of South but I still keep our weather radio on standby just in case. It also alerts for any type of emergency which might come in handy since you never know when Obama will get us bombed by some country during the middle of the night. I'd at least like to know beforehand if we were going to die or not 'cause I might want to say a prayer or two. [:)]
We have this portable weather radio that also has a cradle that it can sit in for home use that plugs into an electrical wall outlet which also charges the battery.
We were staying in our travel trailer 3 to 4 nights a week on that job and I can't count the number of times we were awaken by the emergency alarm on the radio for tornado warnings. Several times we left the trailer in the middle of the night when the trailer got to feeling like it was going to blow over. I at least got up and put on my cloths because if the tornado hit I didn't want to be found laying out in the swamp in my underwear when the rescue people were searching for our remains!
We were parked in Goshen Springs RV Park on the other side of the Barnett reservoir from Jackson, MS and evidently we were in some kind of path for bad weather because it seemed we were having a bad storm at least once a week and a lot of times it was more than that.
I spent the first 38 years of my life living in the hills and mountains of Tennessee and not once during those years did I ever see a tornado. We finally got that experience one time and I don't want to ever go through that again. We got caught in a tornado while we were staying at Serf Side Beach, SC in 1980 at the Holiday Inn. It knocked the windows out of over 40 cars in the parking lot and ours was one of them. I looked out the window of the motel and saw small buildings, lawn furniture and most everything else was being blown away. Some of it was found over 2 miles away the next day. Luckily we weren't in the center of it or it could have been a whole lot worse.
Now that we're living in Hampton, GA we've not experienced any really bad weather here like we have in other parts of South but I still keep our weather radio on standby just in case. It also alerts for any type of emergency which might come in handy since you never know when Obama will get us bombed by some country during the middle of the night. I'd at least like to know beforehand if we were going to die or not 'cause I might want to say a prayer or two. [:)]
We have this portable weather radio that also has a cradle that it can sit in for home use that plugs into an electrical wall outlet which also charges the battery.
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thanks for the reminder
I get weather alerts on my cell phone, so I don't think I need one of those.
I didn't know they did that. What do they charge for the service?
But then again it wouldn't help me because since I retired I don't even carry a phone anymore. I don't even carry my pocket watch. Some days I don't even put on my pants. Is this a great life or what? To bad you have to be older than dirt to qualify! [:o)]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
quote:Originally posted by guntech59
I get weather alerts on my cell phone, so I don't think I need one of those.
I didn't know they did that. What do they charge for the service?
But then again it wouldn't help me because since I retired I don't even carry a phone anymore. I don't even carry my pocket watch. Some days I don't even put on my pants. Is this a great life or what? To bad you have to be older than dirt to qualify! [:o)]
I loaded the "accuweather" app on my phone and it alerts with local severe weather.
It has only done it twice....one was a tornado watch/warning, the other was high winds....50-60 mph.
No help if you don't carry a phone though.
This retired stuff sounds good....I'll have to try it in 7 years or so. [:D]
Even on the lakes throughout the state the weather can change abruptly. Torn the mast off a 14ft catamaran on Canyon Lake when the wind did a 180 on us. Flipped a 20ft catamaran on Lake Somerville and stuck the 22ft mast in the muddy bottom.
weather can be a dangerous thing that changes without warning. Any type of advance warning can keep you alive.
Keep one in house that plugs in with battery backup and keep one of the hand cranked also.
Smitty500mag. Being that you live in Hampton, GA I would be more concerned about a bleach manufacturer that is located not to far from Hampton.
They have several 80,00 pound railcars full of Liquid Chlorine used in making bleach sitting out in the open.
I worked for that company here in Houston and made several trips to Hampton to help them out. This was around four years ago.
At the time the place was out in the woods with deer roaming the plant. There were no security fences around the plant to keep anything out. Subdivisions were slowly creeping out closer and closer to the plant each time I went out there. Apparently few knew the place existed.
Don't remember the road it was located on but there was an asphalt plant right next door. May be three miles East of the Racetrack.
One catastrophic rupture of a railcar full of Liquid Chlorine can wipe of everything in a 10 square mile area. Not from a blast but from the gas produced which tends to stay close to the ground. And the Houston plant is located maybe 3 miles from one of the biggest medical centers in the US, The Texas Medical Center.
Stay alert.
I use emergency radios when there is an emergency. And while I may occasionally test them, I do not use them at other times.
I just keep the one I have on standby. It doesn't make any noise at all until there's an emergency and then it broadcast the alert. If I already knew there's an emergency I wouldn't need a radio.