I'm one of the fortunate ones. My low cost emergency alarm system was installed and working long before Greensboro ban took place and because of that I my system was grandfathered by the Greensboro City Council some years ago.
My alarm system warns against intruders before they enter my yard. And it knows the difference between neighbors and intruders. But should a neighbor enter my yard at night my alarm scenes that is out of the ordinary and alerts me to that as well.
My low cost alarm works without the need for external power, always at the ready and requires no connections to telephone lines or the Internet. I didn't have to pay anyone to install my alarm system and its cost when new was less than $5.oo. That's right, less than 5 bucks.
The alarm system I have is capable of detecting changes in barometric pressure and giving several minutes advance warning to events like straight line winds and tornadoes. It even tells me when the rain is about the start. Last night, several minutes before the 45 MPH winds blew threw Greensboro knocking out electricity to thousands of residents my alarm woke me in plenty of time to access the situation and determine if there was a need to take cover. And after the power went out my alarm system was still on the job.
So why is the City of Greensboro and the Greensboro City Council continuing to prevent others from having access to these effective, low cost emergency alarm systems?
