[INDIANA] Law would require weather radios

[djeplett]

I took a quick search to see if anyone has posted this already. Sorry if someone has...

Interesting article. Hopefully they come with S.A.M.E. technology so they don't get annoying so people actually use them.
http://www.kokomotribune.com/local/local_story_069231201.html

This would be a great idea for the entire country to adopt this law. I hope Wisconsin considers similar legislation.

 

[car2back]

I hate laws that make us do something to protect ourselves.

(BTW, yes I have a weather radio )

 

[scover5555]

This whole thing was started by a woman who had a son that was killed in a tornado. They lived in a mobile home. She could have bought a weather radio and had it in her trailer.... but no. She wants someone else to be responsible for suppying devices to protect her.

 

[djeplett]

This whole thing was started by a woman who had a son that was killed in a tornado. They lived in a mobile home. She could have bought a weather radio and had it in her trailer.... but no. She wants someone else to be responsible for suppying devices to protect her.

That's not how I read the law. I read it as requiring trailers to come with a weather radio. Not that the state of Indiana would foot the bill. If that is the case, then I don't agree with that part of the law.

 

[rdale]

The manufacturers will foot the bill - basically it means that if you buy one the cost is now $100 higher ($30 for the radio plus $70 overhead.)

They are SAME units, they are not programmed or required to be set up in any way.

It's a feel-good law. Had the siren woken her up back then, she would have had 1-2 minutes of warning -- to do nothing. Her trailer park (and 99% of them) did not have any shelter, and no buildings in the area.

I'd rather see government make a push for a place to go in those kind of places, not spending time so people have advanced notice that they're going to die and there's nothing you can do.

 

[BaLa]

just what we needed, more laws...

 

[Viper43]

just what we needed, more laws...

lol, thats EXACTLY what a Sheriffs deputy said tonight...actually he added that Big Brother is too big for his britches as well....in ref to my comments about the seat belt law. He also added he has yet to cite anyone for not wearing a seatbelt.

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[Secret_Squirrel]

I hate laws that make us do something to protect ourselves.

(BTW, yes I have a weather radio )

Does your political party know that you are making statements like that?

 

[Viper43]

That's not how I read the law. I read it as requiring trailers to come with a weather radio. Not that the state of Indiana would foot the bill. If that is the case, then I don't agree with that part of the law.

No the state won't pay anything, just the lazy consumer will pay a premium for something they themselves could have paid much less for. I suppose since there is no weather alert siren in my area I'll have to ask the state to write up a new law that requires all homes, new or used be equiped with the same monitors so I don't have to go out and buy one myself......NOT! I'd rather the state worry about lowering my taxes and deal with crime than waste their time with stupid stuff that consumers should think of themselves..... is it any wonder we have such stupid laws?

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[djeplett]

I really can't argue with you guys as this is along the lines of seatbelt laws and helmet laws.

I guess I'm just hoping it makes people more aware that these radios are available and can save lives if used. If more people have these radios it makes my volunteered time as a spotter more useful.

I guess maybe instead of a law they could have made a public service TV commercial instead.

 

[OpSec]

I took a quick search to see if anyone has posted this already. Sorry if someone has...

Interesting article. Hopefully they come with S.A.M.E. technology so they don't get annoying so people actually use them.
http://www.kokomotribune.com/local/local_story_069231201.html

This would be a great idea for the entire country to adopt this law. I hope Wisconsin considers similar legislation.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. It's up to the homeowner to take measures to protect themselves..it's not up to government to enact a law and do it for the homeowner. Trailer house or not, it's not up to the government to decide if they should have a weather radio or not.

 

[Viper43]

I guess maybe instead of a law they could have made a public service TV commercial instead.

lol, what, the gov. do something that makes sense, and maybe save even more lives than the "law", that would have been too easy. Actually with Daniels in office it would never happen as the ad would cost too much and make too much sense. Your talking about the gov. who took 1,000's off the welfare and medicaid/medicare rolls without warning just so he could look good and get the state out of the red....needless to say many poor elderly, disabled and childeren have paid the price, some with their lives so he'd look good. Of course you won't hear about that in the news. Look at the rise in crime since he's been gov. Killings have skyrocketed, along with robberies and home invasions...the poor gotta eat too, so they steal. And look at job loss, property taxes and foreclosures.... all thanks to Mitch and his "plans". Note too that most of his plans to bring jobs to the state have fallen through...heck, the state can't afford to make ads, cause Mitch is too busy making campaign ads now to worry about the safety and well being of Indiana residents.

 

[rdale]

This has nothing to do with the governor - he just signs the bill. Fortunately he's done so much good for Indiana that you can't call this a 'strike' by any means, but certainly not something he'll be holding up when citizens (fortunately) reelect him. The number of jobs he brought into the state is overwhelming, especially given problems found in the rest of Great Lakes states.

 

[Viper43]

This has nothing to do with the governor - he just signs the bill. Fortunately he's done so much good for Indiana that you can't call this a 'strike' by any means, but certainly not something he'll be holding up when citizens (fortunately) reelect him. The number of jobs he brought into the state is overwhelming, especially given problems found in the rest of Great Lakes states.

WHAT? Daniels has lost more jobs in Indiana than he's brought, and most of what he WAS to have brought backed out or failed completely. And the latest polls showed that Daniels is down 78%, there is no way he will get re-elected. Heck, he's given the states future away with his "Major Moves" and selling the toll road to a foreign business was the worst thing he could do, well, other than taking medical aid and so forth from the elderly, disabled and poor. He got stopped in his tracks with that idiotic toll road around the east side of Indy (actually the airport to Anderson). Heck, Hancock Co. leaders have brought more jobs to the state than Daniels has, and if you go anywhere near the Mt Comfort Airport you'll see the growth here, even from I-70 where a huge furniture maker is building a new factory and showroom. And guess what, Daniels had absolutely nothing to do with any of the growth in this county, they do not want him around here at all.
Daniels helped bail out ATA, and what are they doing? They are bailing out, closing the whole thing down at the airport....the state looses what, $60 - $95 million and thats just for the property they built for ATA and then Daniels refinanced with OUR money again. Thats not counting other lost revenues from that rehashed deal HE made. Ft Ben fell through, those jobs, both military wise and private are all out. No one with half a brain will vote vote for him, even his own party members are looking elsewhere for a candidate because they know he won't win. Funny though, the first poll (the day BEFORE he announced he's running again) that showed Daniels behind 75% and then lost 3 more points in the next poll.

 

[n8emr]

Yet another law to protect us from ourselves. Does anyone know of a weather radio that would be loud enough to be heard all over your home? Where you going to put the radio that it can be heard at all times. People are going to love the weekly test when the alarms go off.

Everyone should have a WX radio, but no law should require it.

 

[rdale]

Every radio I have had would be heard in any home I could imagine... Mine I can still hear in the yard even when the house is shut up.

 

[k9swx]

Every radio I have had would be heard in any home I could imagine... Mine I can still hear in the yard even when the house is shut up.

A lot of wx radios also have an external speaker or external accessory jack that you hook up to a flashing light, siren, flood light, etc.

 

[Viper43]

Yet another law to protect us from ourselves. Does anyone know of a weather radio that would be loud enough to be heard all over your home? Where you going to put the radio that it can be heard at all times. People are going to love the weekly test when the alarms go off.

Everyone should have a WX radio, but no law should require it.

lol, I sleep right through it, even when it's right next to the bed. Worse though was when I ran fire & ambulance and would sleep through the Plectron & two pagers, all within a foot of me, yet they woke everyone else in the house, even upstairs.



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[cellblock776]

This whole thing was started by a woman who had a son that was killed in a tornado. They lived in a mobile home. She could have bought a weather radio and had it in her trailer.... but no. She wants someone else to be responsible for suppying devices to protect her.

This is her->
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=80&sid=837248
The air head didn't even know that weather radios existed. Nope. Never heard of them before. She could probably tell you all about what was going on with Paris Hilton or who had been on the Jerry Springer show that afternoon but didn't have a clue that the weather service transmitted radio alerts which would let her know when she was about to be flattened by a storm.
From the article -

"My family would be here had I known that weather radios existed," said Kathryn Martin,

I wonder.

 

[gremlin96]

I took a quick search to see if anyone has posted this already. Sorry if someone has...

Interesting article. Hopefully they come with S.A.M.E. technology so they don't get annoying so people actually use them.
http://www.kokomotribune.com/local/local_story_069231201.html

This would be a great idea for the entire country to adopt this law. I hope Wisconsin considers similar legislation.

well the area that started the hole deal. had no warnings posted for tornado's, thay just had thunder storms. there was no warnings on TV even for the thunder storms because thay were not considered heavy.

the same thing happend 50 miles to the north a year later. no wornings or watchs. untill a tornadio was spotted out of a thunder storm. the local radio station was a hole hour off on reporting the tornadio it was all ready done and over with. the national weather service put out a worning 30 min after the tornadio was over.

she was all over the tv here. the station gives away radios every summer. so she realy could not say she did not know about the radios. she did say in a inter view on tv. she turned her tv off becouse of the lighting. wonder what the first hit was that the weather was getting bad out side was.

the ones who wrote the law up must of been on crack. this law will not save one life. its just a feel good, and cash genorator.