[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Mike McCarthy]

The latest flood event around Baton Rouge again points to how media
continues to operate when the cell phones fail. So...the question is when,
not if, the FCC will mandate the FM RX's in non-Apple phones be enabled
and Apple be compelled to include them going forward. It's only a matter
of time as the cell providers have again shown they're incapable of
building infrastructure to survive natural events.

Now mind you, this is a 500 year event and lots of electronics were
flooded. Never the less, there are areas not flooded which as I understand
are also lacking service.

And now there is a tropical system which some string models forecast
movement into the central Gulf of Mexico early next week.  When that
occurs, you know what happens next....

MM

On Fri, August 26, 2016 11:38 am, Rod Zeigler wrote:
> While all of us are concerned, and rightfully so, with disseminating
> alerts, there is one piece to the puzzle that gets little if any
> attention. Do exercises and studies take into account that with inoperable
>  infrastructure, those we are getting the alerts to have no way to receive
> them? The only ones that seem to be looking at this are those in the
> private preparedness community. They look at disasters from the POV of the