<story><title>Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/injuries-reported-after-roof-collapse-amazon-warehouse-illinois-ap-2021-12-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;The fall of TV&lt;p&gt;You mean in your daily in-take of media? Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It&amp;#x27;s actually part of their licensing. So if you&amp;#x27;re not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be willing to find a local station during weather. Even if regular programming is on, they will break in when requested by the NWS. Local radio will as well, but I can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I heard Clearcom or whatever the othe station owner is do this. I just don&amp;#x27;t listen to radio.&lt;p&gt;Also, most local stations will also be running live webcasts to FB&amp;#x2F;YT&amp;#x2F;etc. They do this in order to avoid interrupting programming until it is urgent enough to do so.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in North Texas, and during severe weather season, I have a web browser permantely tuned to the radar. If it&amp;#x27;s getting bad, I&amp;#x27;ll find a local station.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I imagine if nuclear armageddon ever happens, it&amp;#x27;ll be similar&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re in Hawaii, you&amp;#x27;ll get a text.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real.&lt;p&gt;Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn&amp;#x27;t the smartest decision I&amp;#x27;ve ever made. It went off a couple more times.&lt;p&gt;One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for information. The fall of TV means that in a situation like that, there isn&amp;#x27;t any &amp;quot;tune to your local TV station&amp;quot; type broadcast. All you get is a tornado siren.&lt;p&gt;I imagine if nuclear armageddon ever happens, it&amp;#x27;ll be similar. Though at least with that, there&amp;#x27;ll be some information channel to turn to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SECProto</author><text>&amp;gt; So if you&amp;#x27;re not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be willing to find a local station during weather.&lt;p&gt;How would I even go about doing that? The only display devices I have are monitors. Even for radio, I would have to go to my car to listen.</text></comment>
<story><title>Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/injuries-reported-after-roof-collapse-amazon-warehouse-illinois-ap-2021-12-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;The fall of TV&lt;p&gt;You mean in your daily in-take of media? Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It&amp;#x27;s actually part of their licensing. So if you&amp;#x27;re not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be willing to find a local station during weather. Even if regular programming is on, they will break in when requested by the NWS. Local radio will as well, but I can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I heard Clearcom or whatever the othe station owner is do this. I just don&amp;#x27;t listen to radio.&lt;p&gt;Also, most local stations will also be running live webcasts to FB&amp;#x2F;YT&amp;#x2F;etc. They do this in order to avoid interrupting programming until it is urgent enough to do so.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in North Texas, and during severe weather season, I have a web browser permantely tuned to the radar. If it&amp;#x27;s getting bad, I&amp;#x27;ll find a local station.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I imagine if nuclear armageddon ever happens, it&amp;#x27;ll be similar&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re in Hawaii, you&amp;#x27;ll get a text.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real.&lt;p&gt;Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn&amp;#x27;t the smartest decision I&amp;#x27;ve ever made. It went off a couple more times.&lt;p&gt;One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for information. The fall of TV means that in a situation like that, there isn&amp;#x27;t any &amp;quot;tune to your local TV station&amp;quot; type broadcast. All you get is a tornado siren.&lt;p&gt;I imagine if nuclear armageddon ever happens, it&amp;#x27;ll be similar. Though at least with that, there&amp;#x27;ll be some information channel to turn to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wsh</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Television stations in the U.S. are required, in a broad sense, to serve their local communities, and many choose to do so by providing weather forecasts and alerts, but I don’t know of any law or regulation that &lt;i&gt;requires&lt;/i&gt; broadcasters to provide weather information, in emergencies or at all.&lt;p&gt;Stations do have to participate in the Emergency Alert System, but they don’t have to transmit anything other than the required tests and an Emergency Action Notification for a national emergency. (See 47 CFR 11.52(d)(4).)&lt;p&gt;The better source for tornado and other warnings is NOAA Weather Radio (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;nwr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;nwr&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;), a network of dedicated FM stations transmitting in the 162 MHz band. Receivers are widely available and can be programmed to turn on only when a warning for a specific area is broadcast.</text></comment>