When the June-July 2012 Derecho occurred, AM/FM radios were hot commodities. I helped a neighbor by getting her the same and she helped me recently, too.

Yard sales and flea markets are what I shop for these things. I once got a good transistor radio for a nickel[2011]too. Radios and their requisite batteries are always items to have for a disaster, too. Radio always works, unless the station itself is out of commission.