[BC] NOAA/NWS--correction

Larry Fuss lfuss2 at cox.net
Mon Oct 26 12:49:48 CDT 2009


> This will be of specific interest to you.  NOAA is opening an
investigation on the tidal wave incident and how it was handled.

Thanks.  34 lives were lost in American Samoa when the tsunami hit on 9/29.
The local NWS office, which can't seem to reliability initiate a RWT on a
regular basis, dropped the ball.  Instead of sending a tsunami warning, they
sent a test.  A such, it wasn't relayed.  My radio station, the LP-1,
initiated the warning on our own, but the delay may have accounted for the
loss of several lives.  I've complained about the incompetence of the Pago
Pago NWS office before, but this time, people died.  I intend to make an
issue of it.  Just another example of our tax dollars at work.

Larry



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