[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Clay Freinwald]

Bill - 

I think you would be very pleased as how EAS works here in Washington State
- We have had wonderful cooperation from our 'Organization of Silo
Operators' for many years - Our efforts here are to do just as you suggest
by combining 'Silo's for the common good.

Perhaps my old home-state is a bit different?

I can't speak much about FEMA, In understand they about to go on vacation
anyway.

Curmudgeon in Washington State 
(yes I am north of 70)   :-)

Clay

Warning!  Bill is getting up on his soapbox.

The problem today with emergency warning messages is too many different
agencies have their own system.  In today's terms, they are
"silos": large vertical structures.  The NWS has their silo; the state has
its own silo; the county has its own silo; FEMA has its silo; etc.

If we (and the "we" today includes a lot more than broadcasters) are truly
desiring the best warning system to the public we need to tear down those
silos and build a new system that meets the needs of the public and not the
needs of competing agencies.

That system should not be forcing one system to fit another; it should be
designed from the ground up as a comprehensive logical system that gets the
message out to the public in the fastest, most effective, and most
comprehensive manner.  Thus the geopolitical boundaries need to correspond
to the warning distribution system boundaries and both need to correspond to
the weather prediction boundaries.

The goal in all cases is to acknowledge "All emergencies are local" 
no matter where the hardware or headquarters is located.  Or where the
funding comes from.

 From my perspective and experience this will not happen because there are
too many competing empires and too many sacred cows.  If/when I am made
Emperor For Life there will be changes.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

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