Emergency preparedness

[Guest guest]

I am on our local Emergency Preparedness committee for disabled people. When

we remove our cochlear processors, I typically put them in the Dry 'n Store

for the night and the rechargeable batteries in the charger. Are the Dry 'n

Store set to run for 8 hour cycles? If there is an overnight emergency can

we interrupt the cycle to remove the processors? If we return the processors

to the Dry 'n Store after the emergency, can we reset the Dry 'n Store and

stop it before the end of that cycle to use the processors for the day? I

know with my blindness I cannot move fast enough to carefully get them out

and batteries in, but I will need to give this a trial run when I wake up

one morning to time how long it takes me. I opt to be careful because one

time I received an early morning call, and in my rush to put on my hearing

aid, I dropped it and it broke. I had to get a new hearing aid. They are

looking at a city alerting system in which pagers with regular text and

voice may be used. For DeafBlind people such as myself a captioned radio

with braille displays are in the works, but who knows how long it will take

before this braille system is up and running. It would be quicker for me to

receive the braille, but this is not an option now.