[BC] NOAA/NWS--correction

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Larry:

Many thanks from the public.  What your stations did saved lives.

HOWEVER, I doubt the duck farts saved ANY lives.

Your stations saved lives because the announced the problem, and told  
people to head for the hills.

I doubt anyone was saved because they had EAS receivers and those  
receivers alerted people.

The exception MAY have been schools, but I really doubt that was the  
case either.

Let's face it, not a single person in "the public" has an FM receiver  
with a duck fart decoder in them.

Many people have weather receivers, but even those many are generally  
very few compared to the "general public."

The public is made up of sheeple.  The don't know, they  don't care,  
and they don't care that they don't know.

I am glad your stations announced what was about to hit the islands,  
but frankly, the duck farts didn't save a single person, in all  
likelihood.

Keep doing what you have been doing because it is the right thing to  
do, but EAS is a failed system when it comes to alerting the general  
public.  Yep, I DO believe  your stations saved lives, but the duck  
farts of EAS had NOTHING to do with it.

--chip

On Oct 26, 2009, at 5:33 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 15
> From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
>
>> 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