Superfloods video

NOVA had an interesting show on Wednesday night, it's on Youtube here:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHvkp_Quaiw

The weirdest part was seeing a building swept along on the current and get cut in two by a power pole, amazing:

Going !

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Going !

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GONE !

At the end they mentioned that cell phone warnings weren't always working so another method is to use the NOAA weather radio alerts.  They didn't mention regular broadcast radio.

I have heard the local NOAA station in Sturgeon Bay but don't have a weatherradio as such.  I have a GE scanner which could hear weather radio (and a few Chicago area repeaters, too):

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_searcher_7_2995a.html

A unique design, it didn't use crystals or a synth, it had a VCO controlled by multi-turn pots, the meter functioned as a tuning dial.

But I was thinking: maybe a home built weather radio might make a good project ?  Or possibly a modified FM radio (which the GE Searcher kinda was) ?  I do have the Photofact of the Searcher so it might be something to look into.  Other than the radio all that would be needed is a decoder for the alerts - that could be used to trigger a Sonalert.

I'll have to think about it, might be fun and useful.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm