How many people turn those alerts off as they are inconvenienced by them.
The amber alerts and some others can be switched off. Not so sure about the FEMA / Federal / State emergency ones.
Fascinating. I hadn't heard of this one happening. I did see a photo someone took of a flashing text sign that was hacked, it was one of those signs over a freeway in the NE Corridor somewhere. Someone had hacked into the system and replaced the 'left lane merges ahead' text with something like "Warning! Zombies ahead!"
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It's this Tuesday! Exciting times!
If you believe Mikey and start your recording on Tuesday, start with lots of tape or free disk space. (Because it's actually Wednesday!)
It's called a drill. You know, practice?
Meh, what's a day here and there...This is the friggin' nationwide EAS test! One can't be too prepared!!
I was in Dayton Ohio that day. If an EAS would have gone off, what in the world would it have instructed me to do? Everything that was happening in my area it was happening locally., like road closures
That is the theory, but imagine living and working in a place such as I do, roughly halfway between the Fort Worth, TX and Shreveport, LA NWS offices. The weather service relies on their own respective radars to get a visual of any hail or hook echos that may appear. The problem is, of course, that Tyler itself is on the edges of each radar site, thus making it hard for them to see the smaller storms that inevitably produce the spin up tornado or the pocket change hail over here. When this occurs, there is no warning, there are no sirens blaring, there's no alert at all sent to us. We're just kind of on our own, with local meteorologists sounding the alarm via the airwaves, breaking into regular programming for weather coverage (and God help any of us if a significant storm is approaching during a Cowboys game).
I believe everything can be silenced on an Android or Apple phone, other than a Presidential Alert.
What do you propose? No technological solution is ever perfect. Ever. Shall we eliminate all of them because they're not perfect? Should the Shreveport and DFW metros get no EAS warnings because Tyler's coverage isn't yet perfect?
Opening an office in Tyler, or close vicinity, has been my stance since we topped the 100K population threshold a decade ago. That would solve the problem without anyone having to take the throwing the baby out with the bathwater approach you propose. I almost feel like you're just trolling me. Perhaps that is actually the case.
My condolences to you. We still have plenty of room here, if you wish to join a healthy portion of your fellow Californians that have already high tailed it out of there, and found their way here.
Most people have the brain cells to read and comprehend what is written in front of *them*. If a tornado is spinning on the ground in Tyler, but the radar in Shreveport is too far away from the city to pick up the rotation, or worse yet the debris ball, then yes, that's a huge problem. That is critical information that I, and my fellow Tylerites, need. We're not always in front of a television or radio to keep track of what's happening with the weather. I'm not talking about alerts going out of which I have no interest, which does happen from time to time. I have no qualms with breaking programming for a storm (or any significant disaster) being covered on an area two or three counties away. I'm talking about an immediate threat to a specific area, populated by over 125,000 people, not receiving an alert of any kind until after the fact. It does us no good to have a city-wide system of sirens, controlled by a weather office in a completely different state, that isn't reliably being triggered simply because Shreveport can't always see or verify what's going on over here in real time.
