emergency radio

The radio and the light nobody charged — Maglite and a hand-crank NOAA radio

The Preparedness shelf's information-and-light record. We follow a Maglite (1979–) on swappable D cells and a hand-crank NOAA radio through the standby years, show why replaceable power beats sealed lithium for a device that must work unused, and do the cost-per-year arithmetic across decades.

• ·preparedness
• ·emergency radio
• ·flashlight
• ·hand crank

• Durable
• Honest
• Future
• Less