Live through one category 5 hurricane then get back to me about how tough you are big guy.

The idea is that AM is more rugged, it’ll be up when other more common forms of emergency communication is down. Internet and TV are both fragile, relatively speaking. FM covers less range. So yeah, while few people use it actively, when a true crisis hits, it’s nice to have a stable fallback. ;)

You live in Hurricane territory you know exactly what channel it is