[EAS] Oroville Dam Evacuation

[Richard_Rudman]

Over the years the "Wolf" argument has lost credibility with me.

OTOH, we do still have a "Message Flooding" issue in some areas that can and does become an annoyance to programmers and audiences. 

Full disclosure: I do have to say that there has been progress to mitigate "Message Flooding"  issue. 

However, repeated NOAA/NWS EAS events in areas that experience weather events that are likely to trigger "message flooding" have led some EAS Participants to turn off automatic forwarding of NWS events. That is perfectly legal.

Why did they choose to turn off NOAA/NWS? Their regular programming was interrupted frequently enough so it became a major tune out factor for their audiences and/or interupted live coverage of the weather event with details that went beyond the NOAA/NWS EAS message.

Richard

> On Feb 13, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
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> I'd contend that "wolf" has been cried too broadly rather than too often.