[EAS] Oroville Dam Evacuation...oh that was close

[Mike McCarthy]

This is the primary reason I asked. Evacuation call to action messages are
a core message type for EAS. Even if/when used in background channels and
not seeing the formal message run out on media, the EAS trumpet should be
the fundamental trumpet that uniformly alerts all.

Why can't Twitter, Facebook, et. al. partner with IPAWS and relay from
there? It takes time to engage each app. That would be time wasted IMHO...

MM

On Tue, February 14, 2017 2:05 pm, Tim Stoffel wrote:
> What strikes me odd about this how simple EAS is to use, yet, it wasn't
> used. Its hard to imagine anything more suited for an EAS alert than a
> dam break evacuation. Sure, there are other ways to get the message out.
> But those for whom EAS is the most effective are likely to not have cell
> phones, social media, etc. If there was ever an event that cried out for
> the use of EAS, this is it.