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Weather-Ready NationAmerica’s NOAA Weather Radio

NetworkReliable Successful Proven

Bruce Thomas Midland Radio Corporation

National Spokesperson

NOAA Weather Radio“The Voice of the

National Weather Service”

Decades of Proven Reliability

Free Service to EM’s

24 Hour Protection

County-Specific Warnings

Deadliest Spring in more than 60 years!!!

NEXRAD Doppler Radar

Day or Night ???

“Vicki Ramsey, a Copiah County, MS Municipal Court Judge who lives on Monticello Road, said she woke up when her weather radio sounded.

‘Just a few minutes later was when the wind picked up’, said Ramsey. ‘...we just got up and got in a closet and in just a few minutes,

everything was over.’” (January 21, 2010 12:55 am)

Where are you most likely to die?

CJ’s Bill

Requires Manufactured/Mobile Housing to have an All Hazard Weather Alert Radio

Originally introduced as Indiana House Bill 1033

Signed into Law

April 23,2007

Now at Federal Level as CJ's Home Protection Act of 2007, H.R. 2787

Federal legislation to have NOAA weather

radios installed in all new manufactured homes.

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1,006 transmitters cover 98% of U.S. population...

Mid-South’sNOAA

Weather RadioNetwork

Transmittersand

Coverage

NWS Central Region

Instantaneous notification

Tested and proven technology

No-cost or low-cost to state, county, city

An indoor warning system that gets the message directly to the people!

Environment Canada

Protecting more than 90% of their population with Weatheradio coverage.

“Every home, school, and business in America should have a NOAA weather radio.”

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