[EAS] Does anyone expect the unexpected?

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Robertm wrote:
> Logical people can understand local and regional threats. If I were in 
> an area where tornadoes were a reasonable possibility, I would recommend 
> to management to auto forward those alerts so long as NWS doesn't over 
> do it.

Tornados have occured in every one of the lower 48-states, unless you are 
in Alaska or Hawaii, its a possibility. If a once in 500-year tornado 
strikes with less than 15 minutes warning, why not leave those 
"unexpected" codes programmed.  If those unexpected events never
happen, they don't cause any problems.

Its the over-used events that should cause concern, not the 
extremely rare, unexpected ones.

> But, remember, we are the servants who help programmers achieve their 
> goals.

Ultimately, its always the business owner's decision (not even the 
program director's).  In the mid-west, we had an owner experience a 
tornado on his home street.  The next day his station group started 
airing tornado warnings.