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alphanguy · 06-01-2008, 06:13 PM

I totally disagree with you here. Tv is VERY important, and for ones like me, who live 10 miles form the neareast town, it's even more so. TV is the primary vehicle for dissemination of emergency information to the public. Yes, you have radio... but in the case of our area... severe weather warnings are non existant on FM stations, and AM stations are undecipheriable during electrical storms... that leaves TV, and OTA at that, because Sattelite is also out to lunch during severe weather. That article even mentions digital signals being more sensitive to weather, and this is just what I was afraid of. People who live in or near town with Tornado sirens don't seem to understand that those of us on farms depend on OTA for their sole source of severe weather info. I hear people bellyache all the time about the severe weather updates interrupting their stupid sporting events... they say "Put a crawler on the screen"......well, that will do a blind person alot of good, won't it? These issues need to be addressed, unless they want to go back to the days of hundreds of people dying in tornadoes, instead of a handful. And don't even bring up weather radio, as the geographical coverage of those stations are much less than TV.

06-01-2008, 06:13 PM	#7
alphanguy High Definition is the definition of life. Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 211	Rick I totally disagree with you here. Tv is VERY important, and for ones like me, who live 10 miles form the neareast town, it's even more so. TV is the primary vehicle for dissemination of emergency information to the public. Yes, you have radio... but in the case of our area... severe weather warnings are non existant on FM stations, and AM stations are undecipheriable during electrical storms... that leaves TV, and OTA at that, because Sattelite is also out to lunch during severe weather. That article even mentions digital signals being more sensitive to weather, and this is just what I was afraid of. People who live in or near town with Tornado sirens don't seem to understand that those of us on farms depend on OTA for their sole source of severe weather info. I hear people bellyache all the time about the severe weather updates interrupting their stupid sporting events... they say "Put a crawler on the screen"......well, that will do a blind person alot of good, won't it? These issues need to be addressed, unless they want to go back to the days of hundreds of people dying in tornadoes, instead of a handful. And don't even bring up weather radio, as the geographical coverage of those stations are much less than TV.