monitor weather alerts in the United States #hackdisrupt

us_weather_alerts.rb

require 'open-uri'
require 'simple-rss'


def weather_alerts(county)
source = "http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/us.php?x=0"

rss = SimpleRSS.parse open(source)

count = 0
alerts = []

rss.items.each do|i|
  if i.summary.index(county.upcase) != nil 
      warning = "WARNING: #{i.summary}" + " Link: #{i.link}"
      alerts[count] = warning 
      count = count + 1 
  end
end

return alerts
end

puts weather_alerts("white river").inspect