Mountain Mama
N. TX
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I found a Midland Weather Radio WR100 at our local Wal Mart for only $13.00 last week. I'm sure it's not the newest technology out there, but for use in the RV I thought it was a good deal. They had a lot of them..guess they are stocked up for spring storms!
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Dave n Holly
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Weather Radio Comes in Handy,
Our Coach Radio Has WeatherBand built into it.
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Wiscampsin
Wisconsin USA
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IMO a weather radio is one of those 'don't leave home without it' items. Even though I've still got about a foot of snow outside it won't be long before those spring/summer severe storms pop up. We went with a handheld battery operated one with SAME technology. If the CG power goes out we still know what if anything is headed our way. Here's a link to NOAA Weather Radio:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm
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LEN Retired
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Wiscampsin wrote:IMO a weather radio is one of those 'don't leave home without it' items. Even though I've still got about a foot of snow outside it won't be long before those spring/summer severe storms pop up. We went with a handheld battery operated one with SAME technology. If the CG power goes out we still know what if anything is headed our way. Here's a link to NOAA Weather Radio:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm Thanks much for the link. Bill
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skipnchar
Topeka or somewhere else
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We use ours a LOT when camping near home but they're pretty hard to use when on the road. Storms and boundary lines are usually given by county name and who ever KNOWS what county they're in when traveling. If they'd give CITIES it would be a lot more useful for a traveler who's not familiar with the area.
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Just Lee
California
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skipnchar wrote:We use ours a LOT when camping near home but they're pretty hard to use when on the road. Storms and boundary lines are usually given by county name and who ever KNOWS what county they're in when traveling. If they'd give CITIES it would be a lot more useful for a traveler who's not familiar with the area.
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pete42
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I belong to a Ham-radio club that we work closly with the local hospital and they allow us to use their roof for our emergency repeater antennas.
we have special weather radios that not only comes on when a weather alert is issued.
the command center can trigger each members radio without sending a full weather alert.
one example is when the hospital needs those of us who have 4 wheeled drive trucks to transport hospital staff when the snow is to bad for two wheel drives. we did this a lot so far this winter.
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Dennis M M
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We use ours ALL the time, running on batteries if we are boondocking. If we are sleeping in the fiver the weather radio is turned on. Don't recall ever having an alert on the road (have had them at home - tornado country), but we often turn it on in the evening for a weather report.
We brought home an old "business data atlas" before we retired. They are used by marketing departments and although the data is out of date it shows every small town and city in the US and what county it is in. Easy to figure which county you are in for weather reports.
Our Midland Weather Radio allows us to program for specific counties.
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Deewayne
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A weather radio could save you from this.
Please watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q
And read this.
http://rvbasics.com/rv-lifestyle/RVers-should-do-tornados.html
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loggenrock
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Hi - on the road I DON'T program my radio for SAME technology - I just leave it on general alert - meaning it will activate for any alert in the area. BTW, the Trailer Life Directory does LIST the COUNTY the CG is in - useful for this purpose. ST
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