play a sound when there's a tornado warning near me

alarm.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# WARNING: If you want to use it, don't rely on it, and you'd have to edit it to get to work for you, wherever you are, if you're in the US.

from lxml import etree
from urllib2 import urlopen
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

COUNTY="franklin"
#COUNTY="union"

oh="http://www.weather.gov/wwarss-tst/oh.php?x=0"

w=etree.fromstring(urlopen(oh).read())
entries = w.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry')

values=[]

for x in entries:
        thisentry = {}
        thisentry.update({'msgType': list(x.findall('{urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1}msgType')[0].itertext())[0]})
        thisentry.update({'urgency': list(x.findall('{urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1}urgency')[0].itertext())[0]})
        thisentry.update({'severity': list(x.findall('{urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1}severity')[0].itertext())[0]})
        thisentry.update({'areaDesc': list(x.findall('{urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1}areaDesc')[0].itertext())[0]})
        thisentry.update({'title': list(x.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}title')[0].itertext())[0]})
        values.append(thisentry)

county = [x for x in values if x['areaDesc'].lower().__contains__(COUNTY)]

immediate_extreme = [x for x in county if x['urgency'].lower()=='immediate' and x['severity'].lower()=='extreme']

if len(immediate_extreme) > 0:
        output = output = Popen(["/home/thomas/loopffplay.sh", "/home/thomas/emergency.wav"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]

heh, some voodoo and redundant code, i was tired! :P