[BC] NOAA/NWS--correction

[Mike McCarthy]

All due respect Chip, you're wearing blinders.  Since they're the LP-1, it
wasn't only for the public's ears. Stations which monitor them we're
notified at that same instant. In my opinion, the staff acted responsibly
and properly.

I'm a firm believer of the don't orignate rule. However, if I have FIRST
HAND KNOWLEDGE of an event coming, I would be extremely remiss, really
negligent, by not using any/all tools at my disposal to "bang that bell"
as loudly and broadly as possible.

eg...If I see an EF1-2 coming and no warning is out (rare on a EF3 or
higher these days), I'm blowing the tones, then getting on the air of the
appropriate station.

MM

> 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
>
>