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Tornado Safety purrs
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/ list of all radios and frequencies used for
weather alert reports "John F. Eldredge" wrote in message ... On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:51:22 -0500, "Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote: Jeanne Hedge wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:59:43 -0600, "Pat" wrote: My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Pat, from one resident of "tornado alley" (albeit the eastern fringes) to one in the middle of things - get a weather radio! You should look for the kind that goes off like an alarm clock if there are weather-related warnings in your area. Put it at your bedside, turn the volume up, and you'll most certainly wake up! (I once had one that would play the weather stations, but didn't have an alarm function) Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com We had one of those, but had to toss it as it kept going off for the simplest of *thunderstorms*, and we couldn't figure out how to change the settings! Talk about annoying! My current weather radio, purchased at Radio Shack, allows you to choose both what geographical areas are covered (generally corresponding to counties) and what types of warnings should cause the radio to sound an alarm. You hook it up temporarily to your computer, use a program supplied with the radio to make your choices, then detach it from the computer. The radio has a 9-volt battery for backup power to preserve the settings. You only have to enter them again if the power is off for long enough that the battery goes dead. If I remember correctly, I paid around $40.00 for the radio. They have cheaper radios that lack the type-of-warnings feature, but it is definitely worth the extra money, from my point of view. A previous weather radio woke me up in the middle of the night several times with flash flood warnings. Since my house is on top of a hill, I don't need to hear about flash flood warnings until I get up in the morning. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Heaps of Purrs coming to you Wilson and Jean.
Pat wrote in message ... My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. |
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:31:37 -0600, "jmcquown"
wrote: Yep, when the one ripped through about a mile from me in 1998, I sure did hear the freight train. But there's also a warning siren on the corner so I heard that first. Hope that siren isn't going off tonight. I just heard there's a tornado warning out for the area where I think you live? Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 06:50:56 -0500, "Magic Mood Jeep©"
wrote: Jeanne Hedge wrote: (you're in Brown Co, right?) Monroe county, Northwest of Lake Monroe. Hang on, MMJ! They're coming through *again*! I hope Pat has done ok today Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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"Jeanne Hedge" wrote Hang on, MMJ! They're coming through *again*! I hope Pat has done ok today We had a watch for a while but nothing too severe, a mild hailstorm in town, but out west of town they had softball-size hail. |
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