Weather Radio

On Sunday, Mel and I bought a weather radio for our home. Ian Leonard on KWWL has been mentioning how they have teamed up with Hy-Vee to bring us these radios for a good price. We looked at Target, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot to find one, but none of those stores has what we were looking for, so we got it at Hy-Vee. The alarm went off twice Sunday, once alerting us to a tornado watch and then about a severe thunderstorm warning. The main reason we got the radio is to warn us about tornadoes, especially when we are sleeping. I do wish the radio would allow us to program it as to which alerts to warn us about. Last night it woke us up some time after 11:00 because of a severe thunderstorm warning. We don't usually take any special precautions for thunderstorms, so being woken up was a bit of an annoyance, but it's nice to know that if we need to be warned about severe weather, the radio is doing its job.