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I lived in a rural area of Oklahoma until I went to college 30+years ago. Even then and at that long distance from the transmitter(70 miles) weather information was useful and receivable via an outside antenna. As bgadow indicates, we never disconnected the antenna. I only know of one instance where lightning struck a persons outside antenna(caused the tuner tubes to explode-but no fire). Of course all people have storm cellars there and get in them when extremely near. For some reason basements are not common there(or here in Texas).
Like bgadow, I find commercial radio to be useless in severe weather. The weather radio is a good concept(although I do not think it could ever replace TV) if it has been executed correctly. The problem is(at least with mine) that it alarms for both watches and warnings. You cannot change that-I asked the manufacturer. If you want to go to sleep during a watch(nothing in the area yet) you turn the alarm to silent and then you may sleep through an actual warning. You cannot seperate the two.
My mother still lives in rural Oklahoma area. She did have an outside antenna, but she has large trees near her house and the antenna and tree limbs collided during some windy days. We need to get her another one.
The area my mother lives in is on top of an old oil field and I do know of a few times lighting struck the oil storage tanks, but that is another story.
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08-27-2008, 09:24 PM
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