Hurricane Sandy Prep: Nostalgic Batteries

I live across the street from the East River and the mayor said my neighborhood/Zone-A had to evacuate. Trains and buses will shut down at 7PM, water *might* shut off, power may get cut. I traded up from Zone A to Zone C, at my mom's place a couple miles north and a little more inland. She said we needed to have a battery-run radio handy for the news, so I popped it open and...wow....

The last time we used batteries on this radio must have been 1991...during the LAST "Perfect Storm"!