Trouble Brewing In Th Gulf of Mexico

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Houston, Texas
June 1st is the start of hurricane season and already there is a system forming off the northeast cost of Mexico. Too soon to say which way it will go but this is not the way to start a hurricane season. Third tropical depression already.
 

fmdog44 said:
My transistor radio will arrive tomorrow. I ordered it because we lost power for 12 hours due to a powerful storm blowing through. Now I am glad I did.
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Anyone who lives in a storm prone area would be well advised to get a NOAA weather radio, and keep it turned on 24/7. We use a Midland radio with a battery backup, and leave it on all the time. It's sometimes an irritation to be woken up at 2AM with that loud alarm notifying us about something like a severe thunderstorm warning....but, where we live it could easily be a tornado watch/warning. In such a case, every minute counts....and by the time any other weather alerts are issued by the media, it is usually too late.
 
Don M. said:
Anyone who lives in a storm prone area would be well advised to get a NOAA weather radio, and keep it turned on 24/7. We use a Midland radio with a battery backup, and leave it on all the time. It's sometimes an irritation to be woken up at 2AM with that loud alarm notifying us about something like a severe thunderstorm warning....but, where we live it could easily be a tornado watch/warning. In such a case, every minute counts....and by the time any other weather alerts are issued by the media, it is usually too late.
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I've got a Sangean CL-100 and you can set it by alert type and by county. Since our tornadic cells follow a pattern, I set it to severe thunderstorm warnings for counties bordering mine to the west. That way I know of something brewing in the area, but don't get alerts from things like flash floods since I'm not in a flood prone location.
 
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