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EAS and Central Texas flooding

b-turner said:
The big question is why would radio stations in a major metro interrupt programming for an event 80 miles away and how frequently to you disrupt your lisener base about something not affecting them.
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In particular, where the station had no signal or a very poor signal in the area affected.
b-turner said:
Earlier in a post someone indicated the police and/or fire department should have driven the roads with loudspeaker on to warn people. First, this is a large county. The rural areas had few patrol cars and fire engines.
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Unless you have lived or traveled in some of those "wide open spaces" it is hard to imagine how few people and how much land there is.

Even the comments about installing flashers or loudpeakers or sirens have to take into consider how big and widely unpopulated some areas are.

If 95% of a county's people are in 5% of the land, guess how many patrol cars and the like are going to be allocated to the areas that are lightly populated or not populated at all?
 
davideduardo said:
Even the comments about installing flashers or loudpeakers or sirens have to take into consider how big and widely unpopulated some areas are.
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That's why the under $25 battery powered water warning devices are "no brainer". It doesn't matter how far from civilization or how far off the grid you are, when the water rises at your tent, camper, cabin, campsite or house, it goes off just like a smoke detector does, giving you time to escape.

FEMA, State Government or of the county governments should require every one in a 100 year flood plane everywhere in the USA install a high water detector anywhere people sleep. IMHO flood water detectors should be accepted like smoke detectors are almost everywhere in the USA in possible flood area.

A Texas million or billionaire could buy and distribute flood detectors faster than the local, state or federal government for everyone in Texas's "flash flood ally".

Of course the County Government will over react to try make up for the lack insuring the safety of the locals and come up with an expensive system that will be studied, restudied, find room in the budget, public hearings with every NIMBY within earing distance in attendance complaining about the noise from the tests. If lucky and it gets passed then it put out for bids. I would be surprised if anything is installed before Christmas.
 
The county already applied for $1,000,000 from the Feds. Two years later the Feds had not said yes or no and a bunch of people have died.

The high water detector is a great idea except for all those batteries...maybe converted to solar?
 
b-turner said:
The county already applied for $1,000,000 from the Feds. Two years later the Feds had not said yes or no and a bunch of people have died.

The high water detector is a great idea except for all those batteries...maybe converted to solar?
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From what I have read they chirp like your smoke detector does . I have ordered one to put beside my hot water tank in a finish basement. I bought the ten year smoke detectors to not have to deal with batteries. Hopefully I will get to replace them a couple of times.

Solar would be better if installed in the sunlight for several hours a day and the cost was less than $25. Hopefully someone really smart will see this and come up with an inexpensive solar one.
 


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