[EAS] Suffolk Co, NY EAS mishap

[Ed Czarnecki]

What Art says below makes sense.  Plus, as Mark Lucero indicated, the WEA
polygon was around Fire Island, but the FIPS was the county (which is just
what the FIPS is).  Virtually no-one is not the same as nobody at all.  "If
only one life ..."   Best of intentions and all that.

The same thing keeps being said about no one getting the alert.  I have
Verizon, and have gotten signal on the Fire Island, and offshore including
the inlet.  Spotty, but it is there.  WEA is not a voice call - the cell
broadcast data is repeated, and the data may get through.  It'll keep
pinging until received or expired.  AT&T is a different matter - don't count
on any signal.  

p.s. - I changed the subject line to "Suffolk Co." - The misspelling was
bugging me ;^p

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Botterell, Arthur at CalOES

> My question is still, why would they send an alert that virtually no one
would get? They problem never would have occurred.

I'd imagine that they wanted to use every means available to warn people of
imminent danger.  I'd suspect they'd argue that "if only one life was