🚀 go-pugleaf

With all of the discussion recently (in this list and elsewhere) about the
Spencer tornado and how the sirens would not function due to a prior power
outage, I have to wonder why power backup is not installed on these sirens.
 It would seem logical that power may be disrupted during a severe weather
event, tornadic or not, whether it be from lightning, precip, or winds.
Given this, plus the *known* dependency of some towns on the sirens for
warning of a tornado approaching, it would seem reasonable as a life-saving
measure to install some form of power backup on the sirens.  UPS (battery
backup) technology is very cheap now, and even generators with some form of
automatic startup could be used.  Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture
here, but this just doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do.

- Ralph Forsythe, KC0CSO
Denver, CO

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