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Bill would require weather radios in mobile homes
Associated Press ^ | 6/21/2007 | AP

Posted on 06/21/2007 5:47:50 PM PDT by P-40

WASHINGTON -- A Fort Worth congresswoman wants manufactured and mobile homes to come equipped with weather radios.

Congresswoman Kay Granger's proposal comes after this week's deaths of at least six people in flooding in North Texas.

The Fort Worth Republican is co-sponsoring legislation requiring that every manufactured home be supplied with a weather radio.

The radio would automatically carry emergency broadcasts of the National Weather Service.

The requirement would be part of the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards.

The bill is named after CJ Martin, a two-year-old boy killed in a 2005 tornado. His mother helped get a law passed in Indiana that requires weather radios be installed in new mobile and manufactured homes.


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KEYWORDS: congress; home; kaygranger; mainstreet; mobile; nannystate; nannystateradio; radio; tornadomagnets; weather
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To: P-40

Really? I’ll have to check it out. I worked until 3am last night. They told me a bad storm cam thru a few hours later. I slept right thru it.


21 posted on 06/21/2007 6:09:36 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: P-40

So like you have to turn them on, right???? I have one, they’re neat but you do have to use human input to turn them on ....


22 posted on 06/21/2007 6:09:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("There Are Two Theories To Arguing With Women. Neither One Works")
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To: P-40

Wouldn’t this be redundant in a mobile home park? I mean, those place *are* tornado magnets. Who needs a weather radio to state the inevitable?


23 posted on 06/21/2007 6:10:20 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: P-40

p.s. ... I also read somewhere that if you tune your TV to channel 2 and turn the contrast or brightness down that if there’s a heavy storm in the area the TV would light up and bloom white .....


24 posted on 06/21/2007 6:11:19 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("There Are Two Theories To Arguing With Women. Neither One Works")
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To: Larry Lucido

Maybe it could also do duty as a CO or smoke detector.

/s


25 posted on 06/21/2007 6:11:42 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Nervous Tick

That isn’t a real ‘R’

She is a Main Street Republican.

About Main Street Republicans:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519618/posts
Republican Main Street Partnership (George Soros is funding the Moderates)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1530676/posts
Attorneys caught after threatening legal letter to Michelle Malkin.


26 posted on 06/21/2007 6:12:13 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: CindyDawg

Yup, they are about twenty or so dollars for a basic model....but you do have to turn it on. :)


27 posted on 06/21/2007 6:12:18 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Calpernia

My FORMER congressman was a Mainstreet Republican.


28 posted on 06/21/2007 6:13:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: P-40

We need a law for this?

Okay, then the next law would be for them to turn their radios on.

To what channel?

Then what?


29 posted on 06/21/2007 6:13:28 PM PDT by janereinheimer ((I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.))
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To: cripplecreek

That’s ok. My current Congressman funded the defense of Cuban Terrorists.


30 posted on 06/21/2007 6:15:06 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Larry Lucido
LOL!!!
I think they should drape Mobil Homes with Gillie suits, you know camouflage them into the countryside so the tornado's can’t find them.
31 posted on 06/21/2007 6:20:16 PM PDT by investigateworld (The meanest lousiest SOB Jap POW camp commander was paroled in 1958, compare this to the BP guys)
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To: P-40

Life is not without risk, and life without risk is not work living.

Legislating common sense is something liberals do.


32 posted on 06/21/2007 6:29:30 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: BuffaloJack

Like our former Governor said, “A Texas divorce is like a tornado; either way, someone loses a trailer home.” :)


33 posted on 06/21/2007 6:31:31 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Hey, I lived in a mobile home while going to school. The people were a lot higher class than the apartment dwellers I once lived with. Mobile home residents OWNED their homes, while apartment dwellers RENTED. Quieter and older on average too.

Weather radios don’t work well in many areas. TV news, local radio and even cable actually does a pretty good job.


34 posted on 06/21/2007 6:33:21 PM PDT by LongTimeMILurker
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To: P-40
Kay -- This is a really stupid idea.

And if you think it will really help, then you too are stupid. Sorry Kay, I think you're a nice lady and all that, but why not try thinking for a change?

35 posted on 06/21/2007 6:39:28 PM PDT by ken in texas (come fold with us.... team #36120)
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To: P-40
Bill would require weather radios in mobile homes

Are they gonna assign goons with billy clubs to make sure the idiot homeowners have them plugged in?

36 posted on 06/21/2007 6:40:15 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961

Maybe so. Perhaps Nagin can be in charge. :)


37 posted on 06/21/2007 6:51:29 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
A few years ago it was really hot in Houston! The gov. gave out a/c units. The people sold them and/or pawned them after it cooled down.

How long do you think it would be before the radio's were on ebay?

38 posted on 06/21/2007 6:51:52 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: P-40

Another lifelong DemocRAT who ran with the R to assure her election. She was elected after Democrat Pete Geren retired. He was much more conservative than this liberal Kay Granger.


39 posted on 06/21/2007 6:55:07 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: LongTimeMILurker

I know all kinds of people live in trailer parks. I was trying to make fun of the politicians trying to mandate something that was almost totally useless. I’ve got a weather radio, and listening to the government broadcasts is extremely irritating. It’s all prerecorded and covers weather over a wide area. The TV and radio stations are 99% more valuable for getting up to the minute storm info out. Nothing beats a live doppler radar map on the TV to know what’s going on. The weather radios are nearly useless for anything.


40 posted on 06/21/2007 6:56:11 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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