[nONIE]

We dont and this isl looking really scary!

[aln]

Yes, I have a wx radio.
You set it for the 3 counties "SAME" codes and it notifies you when there is action in the 3 surrounding counties (Lake-Sumter-Marion). Annoying?-at times.
but it might save your life at 4am,.

[redwitch]

Nonie, check channel 99 on your TV. It will give you up-to-date reports. It is showing heavy rain, but no warnings of any type.

[nONIE]

aln,

What about right now??????

The sky was looking really bad and its raining like he--! I was wondering if there are any tornado warnings in the area tonite!!! :dontknow:

Are you in TV?

[Donna]

Noni,
I am checking from here in Pa..I do not see any warnings at this time..
Don't you have a TV or radio???

[nONIE]

Thanks so much Red, You are a wealth of information, should have known I could count on you. just a case of newbie jitters! :yikes:

Thanks for checking Donna, I was scrambling thru channels, couldnt remember the local weather channel, It looked really bad for awhile here. I was in a panic, not thinking real clear.Pheww! OK, Im fine! ;D

[jjdees]

We have a Midland weather radio and it's real value is at night when the TV is off. I have it set for surrounding counties to the west and it has gone off at night. Could be a life saver if a tornado comes through.

[Hancle704]

Until you purchase a weather radio, you may wish to add following to your bookmarks/favorites on your computer.

weather.gov/tampa

[nONIE]

A big thankyou to everyone for your help and advice. It just turned out to be a bad thunderstorm. :redface:

[Indy-Guy]

I purchased one from Radio Shack and the top of the line one was about $70.00 but well worth it. They will program it for you. It goes off only for warnings in this area. The cheaper ones go off if there is a storm 100 miles a way.

After the tornado of Feb 2nd last year thousands were sold in this area. That tornado hit around 3:00 AM and hit 3 blocks from our home in The Village of Poinciana.

Our radio has gone off a few times in the middle of the night and we were glad to be given the heads up. In most cases the radio goes shortly before the warnings are on the TV. If the radion goes off in the middle of the night then you can turn on the TV and see exactly where the storm is.

[Sidney Lanier]

We picked up one of these NOAA radios (Radio Shack brand) on ebay for practically nothing; it works perfectly, programmed by a firefighter at the station in TV on CR-466 for only the tower whose name I can't think of close by to TV. The radio went off earlier today, around 5 p.m., for the thunderstorm in Marion County, which in fact we ended up driving through though to the northwest rather than the storm path to the northeast. These radios are well worth having, IMHO.

[kwachowski]

We have one and we bought it from Publix. We then took it to the Fire Station where they programmed it for us free of charge. We really like it. When we had the tornado in Feburary 2007 we didn't know about the storm, so we really feel much more at ease now with the radio.

[ConeyIsBabe]

Just curious......... if a tornado hit TV, would it be safer to be living in a CBS home rather than a frame/vinyl home ?

[784caroline]

If a tornado hit "direct" I doubt it would really matter. With CBS you do have 4 block walls surrounding you, but what is most likely to go first is the roof, windows and garage doors and when that happens you may be safer from flying debrie in a CBS but you would still get soaking wet with most of your property ruined.

If its not a direct hit, from a personal perspective, I am more comfortable wth CBS be it a tornado or a more likely occurance a hurricane. Again you have to worry about the roof and windows. What caused alot of the damage to homes were the decorative stones that people use in landscaping....the tornado winds blew them through windows and against siding that caused all sorts of damage.

[billethkid]

The ones you can buy at Publix, Walmart, Home Depot for$24-$40 are all programmable to be county specific.
We have a Midland from Publix, no bells and whistles, but does the basic essentials very well.
Between the weather radio and the weather maps available on the computer, one doesn't really need much else.
I suppose some get comfort watching the weather newscasters on TV....too much sensationalism for me!!

BTK