[EAS] Sufolk Co, NY EAS mishap

[Robertm]

A few points. First it was WRCN's owner quoted. WALK is owned by Connoisseur whose CEO lives in Connecticut. WRCN held the alert although that is irrelevant since if someone were listening to a radio on Fire Island in the first place, they would not be receiving WRCN except on the very far East end where there is zero population. 

My wife and I were planning to spend the holiday on Fire Island and were watching the weather all week as would anyone else who knows the area. There were dangerous rip currents going back before the preceding weekend. NYC beaches were closed for most of the week prior to Labor Day. Checks of the ferry website warned of impending cancellations and the weather forecasts were close to spot on. We just left the area completely.  Only a moron would need instructions from an inept county government that it was time to leave. Anybody who lives in Suffolk County knows better than to believe them in the first place. The only ones there would be those with rentals during that time anyway. If I had been there, and through some magic I knew there was an evacuation, opened another beer and stayed away from the surf.

As far as the people actually on Fire Island were concerned, how would they have actually received this alert? I still feel sirens would have been more effective but sitting in a bar near the dock would have been even better. 


> On Sep 7, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
> 
> Unlike Robert's characterization that an immediate threat wasn't evident,
> this is the precise application of EAS. Particularly as applied to an area
> with limited communications along with access and egress requiring an
> extended period of time to complete an evacuation. This was a