Schools and School Buses School safety is a critical issue for the entire country. Severe weather affects school safety in many ways. Examples include lightning on playgrounds, flooding of school bus routes, tornadoes, hurricanes and winter storms. Every morning we place our children on school buses and hope that the officials in charge will make the correct decisions to protect them so they will return home safely at the end of the day. Weather Eagle radios have been successfully used in real schools for years to help achieve this goal.
Schools have many unique requirements for a reliable weather radio.
Schools tend to built of cement block, with steel frames and metal windows, all of which reduce radio signal reception. The Weather Eagle's sensitive receiver, shielding and provision for an external antenna work together to overcome many of these problems. The office is usually not staffed before 7AM or after 5PM, although school events will often go on around the clock. Many school systems have two way radio systems and often these systems are installed on the actual buses. One Weather Eagle 200 or 300 placed at the central radio system provides live weather alerts to the school buses and to the portable transceivers, which may prove life saving for outdoor events such as sports, field days and field trips.