[EAS] FW: Severe weather drills

[Mike McCarthy]

Message flooding is a nationwide problem. We have the same problem here. 
It's the principal reason we only run TOR and FFW's on our stations and 
have narrowed the relay to the County which the CoL resides. I can see 
this being an especially problematic situation in areas where a single 
county is bigger than the two smallest states combined.  And even more 
so where multiple river valleys between well defined mountain ranges not 
all receive the same heavy rain event at the same time.

It was not my objective to inject my opinion of whether a local area 
should have a live test.  The mission of my first post was to alert 
folks to the fact the FCC is granting waivers for these coordinated hot 
tests.  And that if states or operating areas are planning to do a hot 
test, they should secure their own waiver either by the state 
broadcasters association or alternate means so as to avoid any liability 
under the rules.

I then merely pointed out it may be a good idea to do such a test 
annually. If an area or state feels their system is capable and ready 
without the need of a live test, then that's their choice.  It's a 
condition I happen to not share the same view however.

Cheers....

MM

On 2/9/2014 9:35 PM, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> Mike--
>
> The NWS issued so many Flash Flood and Flood warnings last summer that many
> stations reprogrammed their equipment to ignore them because
> viewers/listeners were complaining and EAS burn-out was a serious problem.
> Most of those activations were issued for remote, rural areas where few