{"id":50061,"date":"2021-08-23T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50061"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:18:02","slug":"weather-radios-given-to-communities-in-path-of-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/weather-radios-given-to-communities-in-path-of-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather radios given to communities in path of natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, NT, who writes:<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few months ago, a city in northern California gave away weather radios to help their community prepare for fire season<\/a>. And last year a county in Georgia did the same thing in advance of extreme weather<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

With all the fires and severe weather happening around the world, I’m curious if other communities have been doing emergency radio give-aways? I thought you or other SWLing Post<\/em> readers might have seen similar stories?<\/strong><\/p>\n

73,<\/strong>
\nNT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great question, NT!<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers: please comment if you know of other communities around the world who’ve deployed weather radios in an effort to prepare for natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, NT, who writes: Hi Thomas, A few months ago, a city in northern California gave away weather radios to help their community prepare for fire season. And last year a county in Georgia did the same thing in advance of extreme weather. With all the fires and severe weather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6578],"tags":[3463,518],"class_list":["post-50061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-weather-radio","tag-weather-radio","tag-weather-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d1r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28909,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/weather-radio-review-grant-recommends-the-reecom-r-1650\/","url_meta":{"origin":50061,"position":0},"title":"Weather Radio Review: Grant recommends the Reecom R-1650","author":"Thomas","date":"October 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Grant, who comments\u00a0on our recent post about weather radios: I\u2019ve been pretty happy with the Reecom\u00a0R-1650. 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