The weather station saved my laundry!!

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Not The Weather Channel, but the weather station that my husband's company gave out for Christmas last year.

He works for an insurance company that does disaster insurance - hurricane (in the gulf coast), earthquake (in CA and along the New Madrid), flood (all over) and some other stuff. So when they handed out the fat bonus checks last year (and no, they're not raping the consumers; in fact, they are one of the last underwriters left and are doing their best to be fair and reasonable) they gave out these:&type=p

Oregon scientific weather forecaster stations. Ours has an alarm that I set for "Rain" and it went off today while I had clothes on the line. (I can also set it for wind or other, but rain has been my buggabear recently.) I don't have windows that face West (where most of the weather comes from) that are visible from my big rooms, so if there's a storm coming and I haven't been outside recently, I may not know it, and weather shifts here about every 12 seconds.

I got it in before it rained! Hooray for technology!!

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1. O! that's another thing I need to plan

but it's too cool you have a "warning buzzer"

I'm wondering if the dusty wind will work with a clothes line out here

I may wait a year for that one and Mr K isn't real thrilled about the idea in general and he'll REALLY not like that I want to hang it off the deck with a wheelie thingie


edit to add, we have a lesser one of those it gives me info but no buzzers