Weather radios are nice if you can receive the broadcast. In most parts of the county where I live weather radio doesn’t work for the simple reason there’s no local weather transmitter. I wouldn’t mind the government coughing up the $25,000 that one costs.
The kicker is that cable TV in the rural areas isn’t real reliable either. So much for the weather channel.
I watched the Weather Channel during Hurricane Allison. The information was at least 4 hours out of date. It proved unreliable as well.
Mr. Loaf-You get cable and yet your area has NO local weather transmitter??! Weird.
Personally, I think it can’t be that rural if you get cable. The nearest town (and of course, gas station and grocery store) for us is 25 miles away...that’s rural! We will never get cable, or DSL, or broadband out here...ever.