Bay Area

Emergency broadcasts are one thing, but after the initial emergency alerts, just staying informed about an area-wide disaster is important too.

With something like COVID in 2020, the mobile internet stayed up, but in the 1989 quake, phone landlines and mobile phone networks went down, in many areas there was no power to watch broadcast or cable TV.

If you needed to hear news like the bridges and freeways being shut down, we were stuck with battery powered radios, which is why you should have one of those, and some fresh batteries, in your emergency kit.