Saturday's Photo Scavengar Hunt - Comfy

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This weeks theme is Comfy.

Now I was not going to participate this week. I just had no idea what to do for comfy. I guess I could have put something nice and warm on with a big warm smile or something but somehow I just was not feeling it. I did peek once and only saw a few peoples hunt entries and they were all very nice but somehow that did not help. And then I had an idea.



This picture is of my weather radio that I purchased earlier this year. What does it do? Well not much. Most of the time it sits on a dresser in my bedroom and just takes up space. It also needs to be dusted off. It uses a little electricity and needs the battery replaced from time to time. But it is the other thing that it does that makes me think comfy.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week it monitors NOAA radio for various conditions. I can set what those conditions are and also what areas, such as the county I live in and the one to my west and maybe south, that I wish to monitor. If anything happens the radio plays the plectron and then announces what the alert is. It then shuts up and goes back into monitor mode waiting for what ever is next. On the display it also tells you how what alert has occurred and how much longer before the alert is cleared.

I have mine set for fairly sever weather. I got this monitor because it was fairly often that something would sneak up on me. Once a tornado went practically over my house without me knowing about it until the sirens from the next county over went off. Also when you are sleeping at night, unless the alert sirens outside go off and you hear them, you have no idea that you should be going for cover. Most times it probably is fine but not always.

So this little box of wires and LCD and more makes me feel comfy, especially at night. Nighty, night weather radio.