[BC] Yes, EAS works!

[Mike McCarthy]

Flash floods kill.  Make no mistake about that.  Just ask the relatives of
the 25 folks killed last year in Arkansas when a flash flood 10ft wall of
water raced through their riverside campground overnight.  Can't say
whether a NOAA radio reached the area or would have helped alert them. But
it's better than nothing for radio stations to relay those highly
perishable messages to those who not able to receive them otherwise.

A while back, another friend in EMA crystalized EAS's mission very clearly.

EAS is a call to action tool. A call to action to preserve one's life
and/or property by specific action as directed by the message or prior
instruction. Nothing more, nothing less.

Lifestyle inconviences have no place in EAS. Transit related delays or
traffic problems are lifestyle related.  Not life and death related to the
masses. Its that simple.

MM

> --- On Thu, 6/14/12, Robert Meuser <robertm at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
> But isn't this also true of people who live in flood plains?  Most EAS
> activations int he Bay Area are due to creeks flooding, and affect only a
> few hundred to a couple thousand people.  By the time the creeks rise
> those folks are already listening to NWS radio anyway, right?
>
> And as for BART passengers, I'd say that most people do not have any kind
> of apps or Twitter feeds for BART because they don't expect BART to have
> fires and be shut down.