That or a transistor radio w/fresh batteries - Oh! for the fifties again!
Batteries have a long shelf-life now. We’ve got a box full that we rotate out/replenish as we need them.
Last year I bought a battery-powered radio for the little facility that I work in - over recent years we had experienced both an earthquake (very unusual for our region) which clogged up all the cell phone ‘lines’, and a blackout that lasted a few hours, during which we had no computers/telephones. We had cellphones, but those lines get tied up in a widespread emergency, too, and for a while we didn’t know what was happening. I figured we needed another resource.
So, you can still get little radios that run both on electricity and batteries.
I’m a great radio fan - whenever I find an older unit at the thrift store that works well, I buy it and stock batteries for it ;-)
Husband has his Ham license; everyone interested in prepping should at least go for their tech license - it’s not difficult, and you don’t need to invest a lot of money in equipment for immediate emergency purposes - just have a charged ‘handy-talky’ around, spare rechargeable batteries and a good supply of AA batteries, if your HT can use those. It doesn’t take a lot of power to just listen, and you can listen without a license, you just can’t transmit. Could be useful in an emergency.
Oh, wait...this isn’t the prepper thread, is it? ;-)
-JT