The Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency (UCHRA) is working toward providing homes in the Upper Cumberland area with free weather radios sometime next month. Thanks to a TVA grant, the organization was able to purchase over 1,700 weather radios, and once distributed each will come pre-programmed to cover the upper Cumberland area and with backup batteries already installed in case the power goes out.

Distribution of these radios is set to start in mid-February, and the goal is to get radios to the public before tornado season begins in March.

Assistant Transportation Director John Brock said anyone interested in getting a weather radio should contact their UCHRA County office when the time comes.