[EAS] Guam: accidential Civil Danger Warning broadcast

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Rod, I tend to agree with you.  However, this is a topic on which some folks seem to hold strong and somewhat personal views.  I remember hearing the start of an RMT in San Francisco a few days after 9/11... first it frightened me, then it made me angry.  I'm not sure the marginal decrement in reliability associated with skipping public-facing tests for a week or two is any match for the negative public impression of EAS and official public alert and warning that we risk by continuing with "business as usual" in such situations.

Although I have yet to get an authoritative read on this, I believe a testing stand-down could be implemented by means of a waiver request to the Commission from the cognizant civil authorities and the SECC/LECC.

And to endorse Sean's suggestion, if your SECC/LECC doesn't have a mailing list or other means of rapid coordination among stations and alert originators, that really should be an immediate action item for you.

Art