[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Richard_Rudman]

Compounding this problem:  Coverage of the stations relaying NWS EAS messages do not match either the NWS forecast zones or political boundaries.

In my personal opinion the long rang solution for this is to build into mass media reception devices the capability to become "warning appliances" that can sense, record and display long form warnings out of the main program stream -- and be programmable by users. The advent of CAP as an open, non-proprietary international standard makes this technically possible. The realistic possibilities that have to be overcome has a lot to do with the consumer electronics industry and their willingness to do build CAP awareness into their aural and visual products.

When and if there are "warning appliances" become a reality, polygons that NWS and other warning centers create can match the needs of a public at risk, and the portion of the public who does not "get" the purpose of warnings will no longer be able to complain to their local mass media provider when a weather alert, AMBER event, or civil emergency occurs in the middle of the last episode of a series like "Breaking Bad" or a major event the Super Bowl.

Regards,

Richard Rudman

On Sep 28, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Clay Freinwald wrote:

> We looked at doing that many years ago in this area - The major problem is
> that the County Sub-Divisions, and county boundaries for that matter, don't
> line up with the NWS Forecast Zones.