I can highly recommend the Freeplay Emergency Radio from C. Crane for everyone, especially solo women RVers. It will give you information through AM/FM radio, NOAA channels, and TV channel sound; it will charge your cell phone, give you an emergency light and works on rechargeable battery, 12 volt, AC/DC or wind-up. This one pictured and several others are available at http://www.ccrane.com.
My greatest fear as an RVer crossing the country from east to west is the weather. I have yet to travel via my RV out of the Northeast. I am familiar with this area and possible weather disasters. I had hoped to travel west last spring. Although I was not able to leave home. The tornadoes, hail storms, fires, severe wind and dust storms makes it a scary proposition. Am I watching too much Weather Channel? I know people live there and survive these weather systems. What do RVer do in a weather alert? LindaD
ReplyDeleteMy radio has the NOAA alerts that will sound when there is a warning in the area. I've learned to carry maps that show the counties in the state where I'm traveling. Maybe I've been lucky but I've seen one tornado from a distance and have never been threatened by any other weather-based danger. If I'm in tornado country, I don't travel if there is a warning in the area. If there is a watch, I travel slowly and carefully, looking for a place to leave the road just in case.
ReplyDeleteI too watch the Weather Channel, and avoid fires and high winds. The winds would prevent me from being on the road in any case.
If there is an alert, I get off the road and go to the safest place I can.