| No longer is the emergency kit that is used on | | | | broadcasts that would warn of impending doom, |
| the East Coast full of things like flashlights and | | | | and without a map to see where natural disasters |
| band-aids only. Now, high technology has entered | | | | happened or were coming from, people would sit |
| the game, and in order to have a complete | | | | in ignorance of the real geographical information |
| emergency kit, one has to have included the | | | | that just cannot be communicated through words. |
| portable LCD television that runs on disposable | | | | Having a TV in your emergency kit is great, but it |
| batteries. Your local government expects that | | | | cannot be just any TV. In order for the TV to |
| everyone has one of these, as national | | | | work as an emergency TV, you must also make |
| broadcasts as to what to do in the state of an | | | | sure that the TV can work with disposable |
| emergency are broadcast over the air, and if you | | | | batteries. Many units available today contain the |
| don't have a TV, then you aren't going to know | | | | lithium batteries that once you run out of, must |
| what to do. | | | | be plugged into a wall outlet in order to recharge. |
| Now, more than ever, our communities are in | | | | The problem with this is that when the power |
| danger of hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. | | | | goes out, they will not be able to be recharged. |
| All of these things make for a more dangerous | | | | Thus, you may have a TV, but without juice to |
| world that we live in, due to climate changes | | | | power it, you essentially have nothing. Make sure |
| coming from global warming. In this flux of | | | | that when you purchase a portable TV that it |
| change, technology has come to our aid. Before, | | | | does indeed take disposable batteries. |
| people used to sit around listening to radio | | | | |