[EAS] Sandy & CAP

[Kluger, Michael]

I can't speak for New Jersey, but I can tell you about the New York City EAS operational area.  The only message that was sent via IPAWS to New York City was the normal Monday Morning RWT, and there was no EAS activation for the NYC area by state or local officials.  As far as NWS, we did get some flood warnings and high wind warnings for New York and/or New Jersey on Sunday and Monday, but then the over the air NWS feed for the NYC operational area went out on Tuesday because of a telco outage, and his been down since.  They are still waiting for telco repair to get them back up.

On another note, we did lose one of the AM LP-1 stations in NYC for part of a day due to flooding at their transmitter site in New Jersey, but since NYC has 5 LP-1 stations (four AM and one FM), the area was never without LP-1 service.

Michael Kluger
Director of Broadcast Operations and Information Technology, WNYE-TV & FM
NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment
718-250-5808
mkluger at media.nyc.gov

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Did FEMA send any EAS or other public warnings during the Sandy Superstorm
via CAP? Did state/local officials use CAP to send any EAS or other warning
messages? Before Sandy there was an article on problems with the new EAS in
New Jersey. Was it used for the storm? 

 

Adrienne Abbott

Nevada EAS Chair