Tell Facebook about your weather conditions

[vchimpanzee]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

 

[Steve.Gates]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

Perhaps ask the Folks who live in Newton, N.C. and Catawba and Lincoln Counties. Newton got 12" (yes TWELVE INCHES) of Rain in 9 Hrs' Time.

Steve.

 

[Steve.Gates]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

Perhaps ask the Folks who live in Newton, N.C. and Catawba and Lincoln Counties. Newton got 12" (yes TWELVE INCHES) of Rain in 9 Hrs' Time.

Steve.

Albeit that occurred over the weekend, it shows this is just the World We Live In these Days. Steve...

 

[w00t]

Okay? What is wrong with that? I'd rather tell the NWS about something online much more than call them on a 800 number that's probably busy.

 

[unitron]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

They meant on their Facebook page and not one's own, right?

 

[vchimpanzee]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

They meant on their Facebook page and not one's own, right?

I guess, but the whole idea of a weather bulletin with the advice to put severe weather on a Facebook page seems weird.

Though this morning I went to Facebook and some people I went to high school with had some photos of serious flooding. I'm not sure just why, since I'm not aware these people were living in the areas where flooding was the worst.

 

[eacalhoun1]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

Not totally following you, VC, but I think you are referring to the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) automated voice that converts text to voice from each National Weather Service (NWS) office. The NWR is one of the required monitoring sources for broadcasters' EAS equipment - EAS replaced EBS in the mid 90s. For several years, the NWS bulletins have been "tagged" with the message you referenced asking the public to report severe weather they've observed (downed trees or other wind damage, flooding, tornadoes, large hail, etc) to a toll-free number. Over the past year or so, the NWS has been adding social media to those tags as another method for the public to report severe weather. Most NWS offices now have FB pages and Twitter accounts for this purpose.

Eric

 

[vchimpanzee]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

Not totally following you, VC, but I think you are referring to the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) automated voice that converts text to voice from each National Weather Service (NWS) office. The NWR is one of the required monitoring sources for broadcasters' EAS equipment - EAS replaced EBS in the mid 90s. For several years, the NWS bulletins have been "tagged" with the message you referenced asking the public to report severe weather they've observed (downed trees or other wind damage, flooding, tornadoes, large hail, etc) to a toll-free number. Over the past year or so, the NWS has been adding social media to those tags as another method for the public to report severe weather. Most NWS offices now have FB pages and Twitter accounts for this purpose.

Eric

That's correct. And it just seems weird given the original purpose of Fscebook and Twitter for this to be happening.

 

[eacalhoun1]

After the EBS was activated, a robot voice announced where there were flood warnings and said if we had weather conditions to report, call the 800 number or post on Facebook. Seriously?

Not totally following you, VC, but I think you are referring to the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) automated voice that converts text to voice from each National Weather Service (NWS) office. The NWR is one of the required monitoring sources for broadcasters' EAS equipment - EAS replaced EBS in the mid 90s. For several years, the NWS bulletins have been "tagged" with the message you referenced asking the public to report severe weather they've observed (downed trees or other wind damage, flooding, tornadoes, large hail, etc) to a toll-free number. Over the past year or so, the NWS has been adding social media to those tags as another method for the public to report severe weather. Most NWS offices now have FB pages and Twitter accounts for this purpose.

Eric

That's correct. And it just seems weird given the original purpose of Fscebook and Twitter for this to be happening.

FB is like a bad cable channel, 15 years after it was launched. MTV is no longer "Music Television", TVLand shows current stuff, and TLC does not "learn" me the same stuff it did 20 years ago.