Who cares if the analog hole is closed? {Engadget HD}

Jul 24th 2008 9:48PM Transplanted native thirty plus years not a snowbird here. Yes, it was a choice in moving to the sunny south... I do understand the police and fire dept. need the analog for emergencies but "HURRICANE SEASON" is six months out of the year, without thinking of the global warming effects in the future. The FCC did not even think about when there is no electricity, the majority Floridians that own battery operative TV's!!! It is a essential part of the survival supplies for local television news updates on the storm, areas that might still be evaculate while we are still being boarded up in our homes, a school, or shelters with shutters/plywood, water food etc. There still are battery radios, but they stay mainly to their normal format and do not broadcast complete informative details.