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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by dwighttk on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:14PM (#29527071)
> Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It's actually part of their licensing. So if you'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

On what? I don’t have a tuner

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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by mbreese on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:27PM (#29527141)
Honestly. You know exactly you’d need to watch TV (a tuner). Or more accurately, if you have a TV, you really just need an antenna. If you don’t have a TV, then many (most?) local TV stations have a website with streaming video. This is especially true for news and weather. And if that all fails, you can get a network tuner/dvr that will stream broadcast TV to an app.

There are many options to get local TV/weather. Let’s not pretend that this is a problem without a solution.

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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by bobthepanda on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:43PM (#29527221)
Smartphones are also plugged into emergency service broadcasts. I've received a few for severe weather in my area.
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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by t-writescode on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:39PM (#29527203)
Get an emergency weather radio. I used to have one in the Midwest. I imagine they still work, right?
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