inputs.text: glad bought - moved rural community kansas living large city life one day outside thought could hear testing tornado siren distance immediately realized tornado siren would no use storm decided needed buy something alert severe weather event purchased 18 months ago extremely happy performance found easy program get morning push \\listen\\ button hear weather forcast day keep mine kitchen loud enough wake middle night alarm sounded able control alerts designed alert example not live flood proned area turn alert flood watch etc alerts option turned machine programmed keep anyway tornado warning radio 80 alerts programmed machine not pertain area kansas never alarm go avalanche machine even alert amber alert area highly recommend device never experienced kind failure purchased one gift machine also use rechargeable batteries continuously charge machine plugged event power failure automatically changes battery power get glad