SO IN THE WAKE OF THE KANSAS TORNADO TRAGEDY, I finally got around to unboxing and setting up the all hazards weather alert radio that I ordered a while back. I doubt it will ever wake me in the middle of the night for an “Avalanche Warning,” but if one is ever broadcast for East Tennessee, I’ll know. More importantly, it will go off if there’s a tornado warning in my area. It lets you set the alerts you want to hear about or ignore (though a few, like “tornado warning” are non-defeatable — who wouldn’t want to know about that?) and it lets you set it to register only for your own county or other limited areas. It was pretty cheap — about 50 bucks — setup was easy, and there’s a battery backup in case the power goes out. Not a bad little gadget.