You're going to get more up-to-date information online, anyhow. If you're just talking about what you need for emergencies, I'd make sure that your ISP offers dialup access, that you have all the information in your system preferences to get online via dialup, and that you bookmark websites that you can access at dialup speed. That's true even if you get your internet via DSL - as we found during a recent power failure, the DSL can go out at the source but you can still have phone.

And get a plug-in emergency weather radio, and a hand-cranked radio with weather band and phone charger power take-off.

Do you know whether you can even get broadcast TV? Do you have an antenna tower? In our part of the world - pretty much the same as yours - hills often get in the way. Even up on our ridge, there's a higher hill between us and the closest TV station, and the other stations are 50 miles away. When the antenna came down off our tower in a storm a few years back, that was the end of our broadcast reception.