Digital TV & Converter Boxes

[Tuckervill]

For breaking news, I find the broadcast news to be much more on the spot than their internet sites in my area. During serious events (tornadoes hit Arkansas hard this year), the newscasters were on 24/7 and were able to give more information. The internet was not updated until the day after or later.

But, for the finer details--the interviews, the pictures, the death toll , the internet was better--after a few days.

I'm with Zen. We don't have a fireplace in the house, but we have a big woodstove in our shop. If it's still standing after an ice storm (lots of trees around it), we'd just move out there and heat that place up and get into the camping equipment. Tornadoes don't usually happen when it's freezing cold, though, so we'd just move out in the yard.

Karen

[Pedal Wench]

It's probably a bad assumption that you will be able to get online in a major emergency. You have to have electricity or functioning phonelines for that.

I second a good weather radio or even one of those little battery powered TVs.

I live alone and have 3 TVs.

That's actually an issue -- your current little battery-powered TV will not work after the conversion. (Yet another shameless blog plug:http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.c...gton-nc-t.html)
They do make battery-powered converter boxes for those.

[SouthernBelle]

That's why I haven't gotten one yet!

I wonder if anyone has put out a digital one yet?

[tulip]

A radio will give you the information you need. You can get a wind-up radio with or without little solar panels. No electricy, no batteries, no converter box.

[Aggie_Ama]

A radio will give you the information you need. You can get a wind-up radio with or without little solar panels. No electricy, no batteries, no converter box.

And you get a bit of exercise too! We have one of those crank flashlights, good lord if you let it get low you are getting a workout to get light.