new weather warning device is needed badly.

[F22RaptorDude]

Whenever the weather gets extreme here I usually sit on my roof with a lawn chair. Sure its not safe but if somethings coming you'll sure as heck see it.(Note I do know I have a good chance of falling off or getting hit by lightning, so save your breathe  )

[Dragon]

Whenever the weather gets extreme here I usually sit on my roof with a lawn chair. Sure its not safe but if somethings coming you'll sure as heck see it.(Note I do know I have a good chance of falling off or getting hit by lightning, so save your breathe  )

Do your neighbors gather and begin chanting "Darwin, Darwin, Darwin?"

[Slash27]

there was no predicting that storm was coming from simply looking up at the sky.mother nature can change very quickly.

but i dont think i made my idea clear enough. i was thinking of something similer to a smoke alarm, that would sound to warn the inhabitants. that would be set off when sent to do so similier to how home security units do with there devices.
 
or maybe even make this an option package with home security? pay a little $$$ extra and the home security unit will install a sort of "home weather system" in your house with a mini speaker in each room. and if there is a major storm and/or tornado watch in your area, it will sound off when they send it the signal. maybe even give it customizable options. like weather you want it to sound for only tornado watches/warnings, for severe weather, or any other type of weather.

its not a perfect plan, but its just my theory. no need to tear it apart with your obnoxious "get educated" "fend for yourself" "learn to predict the weather"  

Do you even read what the hell people are typing?

1. There are warning systems for your house- Weather radio
2. There was "predicting that storm". Just becaue you didn't know about it does not mean it was some freak event
3. If you don't want to educate yourself on it or have input from people then don't post about it. If you find it obnoxious that people have given you suggestions then you are just subject to end up a statistic. Go take the batteries out of the smoke alarm like that other guy and bury your head in the computer. And by no means do a google search for weather forecasts or local radars. I'd hate for you to be clued in.

[F22RaptorDude]

Do your neighbors gather and begin chanting "Darwin, Darwin, Darwin?"

Sorry But I don't understand the joke...

[VonMessa]

Sorry But I don't understand the joke...

Then you, also, are doomed to be a statistic.

[F22RaptorDude]

Then you, also, are doomed to be a statistic.

A statistic for what?

[Slash27]

Body count.

[allaire]

A statistic for what?

Bwah ha ha!  A statistic for more rules and regulations.

[F22RaptorDude]

I'm still confused 

[Babalonian]

  

[68ZooM]

i guess they didnt teach them about darwin in school, go figure lol

[dedalos]

I'm still confused 

Just try it for real and you will see the light

[F22RaptorDude]

i guess they didnt teach them about darwin in school, go figure lol

Charles Darwin? Yeah but I still don't get the joke?

Just try it for real and you will see the light

Well considering we havn't had a single storm this year in my area, its been kind of boring, but I'm hoping we get a few.

[PFactorDave]

Charles Darwin? Yeah but I still don't get the joke?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

[Tigger29]

Go take the batteries out of the smoke alarm like that other guy and bury your head in the computer.

HAHA my whole point in that is that people would just disconnect the alarms because they would get tired of hearing them go off all of the time anyway.  You can't disconnect a siren going off a couple of miles away though!

The simple truth is that I have the right to remove the batteries from my smoke alarm as I see fit.  If my house burns down and I die as a result then it is due to my own stupidity.  Would you propose legislation requiring tamper-proof smoke alarms be installed so that I can't do that?  This is really not any different.

Weather radios and alarms already exist so the people who want them and who would feel more safe having them can already go out and buy them.  Those who do not feel the need don't have to.

For the record:
1> I have several other smoke alarms in the house but I am not going to deal with an ear shattering chirping every time I get out of the shower.  Whether that one alarm makes me safer or not is irrelevant.  One could lock himself in a bomb shelter underground and be extremely "safe" but then what about the quality of life?  Since an ear-shattering noise makes me unhappy, I choose happiness over the additional protection that one smoke detector may provide.

2> I really get irked off about seeing "TXT SPK" used all of the time.  Personally I feel that it is a butchering of the English language.  Casually joking about spelling errors and what not is one thing but when people actually write or type out "RLY, SRSLY, U, URS" and the like it really gets under my nerves and becomes really hard to take that person seriously.