Battery can die on a radio. I already get loud, seemingly unavoidable alerts on my phone if a child is reported missing. So how about alerts beforehand when it comes to floods? It’s not a novel concept by any means.
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Folks who had alerts turned on AND had cell coverage did get alerts from the NWS starting at 1:14 AM. Still businesses who are entrusted with vulnerable folks should have the most reliable alert system available and that is a weather radio.
jul 8, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
A weather radio is AC powered with battery backup. Change the batteries every 6 months as the instructions suggest and. you're good. You can receive both Flash Flood Watch alerts and Flash Flood Warnings on these radios, per your preference. When they're issued, you get them within a millisecond.
jul 8, 2025, 5:26 pm • 19 4 • view
Im not against having this radio. But they didn’t use the means they already had so why would the solution be to add another one?
jul 8, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the means they SHOULD have been using! 1. NOAA Weather Radio! 2. Something else.
jul 8, 2025, 5:30 pm • 14 3 • view
In my opinion, any business (camp, campsite, RV site, hotel) that is operating in Flash Flood Alley ought to have been required by law to own a weather radio, have a flash flood plan, communicate the plan to all staff, and make sure customers and clients have signs and info. That's affordable now...
jul 8, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
...I mean, every hotel has an evacuation plan in case of fire because they are required to. What confuses me about this whole story is that we had that technology decades ago when I was a kid, and nobody seems to remember it exists or understand it can be far more reliable than cell phones.
jul 8, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
In fact, they're so fast...something I kind of like to do is when my radio goes off with a warning and I'm watching local news weather broadcast (we do wall-to-wall during severe here)... I like to time how long it takes for the warning to be broadcast by the weather person on the screen. Minutes!
jul 8, 2025, 5:29 pm • 10 1 • view
You plug it in. The alerts come on automatically. Can't help stupid.
jul 9, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view