One of our favorite features of our site is the feed from our NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio that provides not only mundane information like forecasts but also crucial life-saving information during severe weather. Unfortunately the computer sound card that receives the audio feed from our scanner failed two days ago so the audio feed is currently down.
Running our site is a pretty expensive endeavor – The various hardware systems, software and data connections aren’t cheap. Failures like this add to the cost. That is why we have asked for donations from time to time to help offset the expenses we incur in running the site.
The replacement part for our weather radio system is on order and we should have it back up and running next week. It is somewhat “good” timing in that the National Weather Service is performing work on their system at the same time and has warned about outages in their broadcast.