This is brain damage levels of decision-making.

If you live in a portion of the US that has severe weather, a NOAA weather radio with the EAS alerting function is a mandatory addition to your home. It could be the difference between life or death. See: first five minutes of Twister.

Inexpensive, AC powered with battery backup and it always works. No internet, no cell tower needed, which was likely just trashed by the storm you're trying to shelter from.

Fun fact these radios can warn you about more than weather. "Radiological Hazard Warning" and "Volcano Warning" to name a few.

Many more people died in decades past from severe weather and natural disasters precisely because of inadequate advance warning.

So naturally they would migrate people to...a replacement orders of magnitude more unreliable.