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Transcript:
Weather alert radios are important devices to have in every
home simply because this device can not only on a daily basis give
you weather information, it can give you the daily forecast or
hourly weather conditions, but the best part about this is that
this will alert you directly when the national weather service
issues warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, flash floods,
and many other things. In fact most of these radios are
programmable, so you can select which county you want to get the
warnings for. You can get it just for the county you live in, or
for surrounding counties.
We feel that weather radios are just as important as having a
smoke detector in your house. Because the chances of having a
severe thunderstorm or flash flood anywhere in your area here in
the state of Illinois are pretty high. And these weather alert
radios will alert immediately upon reception of a warning from the
weather service. In fact, when we issue a warning it only takes a
couple of seconds for this alert to go off.
The nice thing about the alert is that you can program it, so that
after the alert goes off you immediately hear the voice of the
broadcast telling you what the warning is for, and on many of
these models it will scroll across the screen as to what type of
warning has been issued.
It's important to have these in homes because in many areas
outdoor warning sirens can't be heard inside homes. Not every
community has sirens, and even the ones that do it's difficult to
hear them inside when you've got the windows down, or the air
conditioner running during the warmer parts of the season. So
having one of these in your home, or even a few of them in
different parts of the house, can get you that alert.
There have been many cases right here in the Midwest where these
weather alarm radios have alerted people to tornadoes that are
approaching in the middle of the night and have woke them up and
they were able to seek shelter and ultimately saved their lives.
Weather alert radios can be purchased at electronics stores and
most department stores have them, and there's even a few
pharmacies around that are selling these. They are very
affordable. This model that I am showing you here (a Midland
weather alert radio) is typically for sale for about $30, and when
you consider the fact that you need to have smoke alarms and
carbon monoxide detectors in your home, spending $30 on something
that could save your life is very important.
They have other models that range a little higher in price that
you can do much more programming with and actually pick the types
of warnings that you want to be alerted for.
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