[EAS] Oroville Dame Evacuation

[Crosby, John]

Art,

You Hit the nail on the head.... I would expect NWS to issue FFW, and I don't know what their message said or even if they brought up evacuation. But knowing what most FFW say in our part of the country I would be staying away from low water crossings, not thinking of evacuation.

But I would expect Emergency Managers to pick up on the need for them to be issuing the (EVI) Evacuation Immediate for their jurisdiction so that WEA and other tools could be coordinated with a common message across systems.

At some point we need to use the tools we (EM's) have and send our message, if the message is more important than profit it will get out................

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

Mike, I'm working on a tick-tock right now.  So far I've verified that NWS issued an FFW (flash flood warning) at approximately 1615 Pacific.  So far I've only heard of one broadcaster picking it up.

Yes, you point to one of our ongoing challenges.  EAS has, over the years, accumulated somewhat of a hodgepodge of event codes, fraught with overlaps and gaps.  E.g., this event could have been coded as an EVI, but also as a CEM or LAE, or even an LEW, depending on who was issuing it.  Aside from the EAN, no code enjoys any particular preference over any other.  It's very confusing for alert originators... all the more so since the different codes may be programmed by individual stations for different processing.

Art