[EAS] [BC] Yesterday's CAP RWT

[Richard_Rudman]

Bill/Everyone:

All we can say is that what is posted here gets read within the beltway. 

I would refer you and others interested in how the NWS relates to EAS to the open letter that was published on August 20, 2012 on the Broadcast Warning Working Group website: 

http://eas.radiolists.net/the-bwwgs-open-letter-to-the-national-weather-service/

As a direct result of that open letter a representative of the NWS from their headquarters in Silver Spring, MD contacted the BWWG with the goal of opening a dialog on what we called "message flooding" in the open letter and other NWS/EAS issues.

Through discussions between NWS and key stakeholders in the near term and pending legislation the EAS stakeholder community can (1) build a relationship with NWS that will lead to better NWS EAS warnings and (2) create a broad-based stakeholder EAS National Advisory Committee that will lead to improvement of all types of warnings from all warning originators.

Richard Rudman
Core Member, BWWG

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> And "If not, why?"  We should invite them to join the party.
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> Bill Ruck
> Curmudgeon
> San Francisco
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