Early Severe Weather Alerts Save Lives
suretyCAM provides you with the peace of mind knowing that your home is monitored and protected in the event of an intruder. We can even help you with energy conservation and save you money by syncing your thermostat and lights to your alarm panel. We can also help save your life if there is a severe storm by providing you with an early detection alarm that is tied right to your panel. It can let you know about anything from a tornado, to a hurricane, or the unlikely event that the sun is imploding.
Severe weather can spring up on you at anytime. This can be especially true in Columbus Ohio where it can be 70 degrees and beautiful one day and then have a foot of snow the next. We’d all like to be able to control the weather so we don’t have to worry about a tornado or hurricane destroying our home and belongings and putting our loved ones in danger. While there’s precious little we can do to protect our homes from Mother Nature, there are things we can do to protect our loved ones. The most effective way of averting disaster in the event of a major storm is knowing it’s coming and preparing for it. Let’s face it, we can’t all have access to Dorothy from The Wizard of OZ to warn us in the event of a twister.
Thankfully, your suretyCAM 2gig alarm panel can act as an early warning system. Once the National Weather Service issues a severe storm that information is relayed to the alarm panel and will begin sounding an alarm until it is deactivated. This early warning can give you an edge against mother nature and could even save your life. It was reported that during a severe storm in Missouri last year, the severe weather alert that went out to Alarm.com customers occurred almost a full five minutes before the tornado sirens began to sound. That’s a long time to prepare for the tornado and to get yourself into a cozy safe place.
You may be thinking, “Couldn’t I just look out the window?” You could, but there’s at least two problems with that plan. The first and most significant problem is that if there’s a tornado or hurricane, the last place you want to be is near a large sheet of glass. That’s just asking for trouble. The second problem is that you may not always be aware that a storm is even coming. Because the alert is coming right to your alarm system, it can notify you regardless of what you’re doing. You can feel safe knowing that if there’s a storm coming, your suretyCAM alarm system will let you know even if you’re feverishly working on that novel you’ve been putting off, doing your taxes, or maybe just deep in thought.
Knowing that a storm is coming early can and does save lives. According to the National Weather Service, most deaths that occur during a storm are due to people being uninformed and unprepared for the weather. It’s always good to have a disaster plan ready for the event of a weather emergency, and your suretyCAM alarm panel can give you the extra time you need to ensure that you have the ability to execute it.
suretyCAM also provides a window film that will strengthen your windows to prevent shattering in the event of a storm or attempted break in. The film is completely transparent, undetectable, and can turn any window into safety glass. But that’s another blog for another day. I’ll go into that more next week in another blog, but if you just can’t wait to hear more, give us a call and ask about our window strengthening service.
Written by Jay Skock and originally posted here: Early Severe Weather Alerts Save Lives